Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Prospect Union resumed its course of Sunday afternoon lectures yesterday with a talk by Professor J. H. Beale '82 on "A New Plan of Charter for Cambridge." The Union has had a very successful year so far, and hopes soon to erect a new building in the rear of the old one, to contain a much needed gymnasium and lecture hall...
President Eliot delivered a lecture at the Prospect Union yesterday afternoon entitled: "Who suffers most from bad city government?" President Eliot pointed out that the class of men who earn from $600 to $900 a year are the ones that suffer most, because the more wealthy pay, a smaller proportion of their incomes for rent and can better afford to pay for articles that are lacking in poor city government, such as a good water supply and good schools. He also said that the remedy of these evils lies with this poorer class of men, for they control the majority...
Congratulating you on your labors and satisfactions in the past, and on the sure prospect of greater labors and satisfactions to come, I am, with high respect, Your friend and servant, CHARLES W. ELIOT...
...plan of conducting the Prospect Union has recently been changed by the creation of seven committees to supervise the various departments, each committee being composed partly of members and partly of teachers. This plan is expected to stimulate the growth of the Union, as it gives the members the desired opportunity of sharing the work of supervision, which has previously been done by the teachers only...
...following new teachers have been added: I. F. Carpenter '10, H. W. O'Connor '10, I. W. Gross '11, A. C. Roberts '10, F. G. White 3L. A. H. Elder 2L., who has served as educational director, has recently been elected president of the Prospect Union...