Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...upon this year by the governing board of the Union, which has already broadened its activities in many ways. Notable among the latter are the frequent addresses held by the management in the Living Room. These have given the student body an opportunity to hear such men as Commander Read, and Walter Hampden ' 00. Hugh Walpoie, the British novelist, comes tonight, and Professor Stephen Leacock, the humorist and economist, Viscount Grey, the new British Ambassador, and Donald MacMillan, the Arctic explorer, have all promised to address the club some time in the near future...
...necessary for admission to college would like to see the men coming on now in school have something in their mind's eye besides the examination paper. Let the college examine if it will, but on a saner basis. Instead of finding out whether or not a man has read so many books of Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil, let them discover if he can read and write Latin intelligently. From the individual's point of view, his ability to talk French well is certainly more inducive to the continued study of French literature and thought than the knack of setting...
...Fish '75, chairman of the National Industrial Conference Board, has been secured as a speaker at the "Get Acquainted" banquet of the Graduate Schools in the Union at 6.30 o'clock tomorrow evening. In addition, Professor P. B. Rice of the Leland Powers School of the Spoken Word will read Robertson's "David Garrick." Dean W. B. Donham '98 of the Graduate School of Business Administration will deliver a short address, and Mr. C. E. Caney will render some piano selections...
Under the direction of Mr. Alfred Winsor '02, former University hockey star and coach, and one of the leading national authorities on hockey, and Mr. Harold W. Read, chairman of the Boston Athletic Association Hockey Committee, plans are now well under way for the opening season of the new Ice Pavilion in the Technology Block. A local league, composed of the University, Dartmouth, an organization of former Y.D. men, the Boston Hockey Club and possibly the Crescent Hockey Club, has been organized and a schedule of weekly games among these teams is being made...
...Executive Council of the Graduate Schools' Society has secured Mr. Phindelah D. Rice of the Leland Powers School of the Spoken Word as reader for the Get-Aquainted Banquet to be held on Armistice evening, November 11, at the Union. He will read Robertson's "David Garrick.' Mr. C. E. Caney, a graduate student who has studied music abroad, will render some piano selections. It is the purpose of the Executive Council to furnish every opportunity possible for the men of the several schools to become acquainted. It is hoped that this, the first undertaking of this nature, will receive...