Word: reads
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only reason that it is a social centre is that it is the University Debating Society; one great reason for its success as a debating society is the facilities it offers for social intercourse. A man who uses the Union merely as a place to write letters and read the papers never makes friends with anybody. There are no purely social gatherings and it is extremely unusual in Oxford for strangers to fall into conversation and "make friends"--especially in the Union, where there is no "Living Room" and consequently the most frequented rooms are those in which silence...
Undergraduates in need of cash--and what undergraduate is not?--will read with interest the terms of the second prize contest announced in the current number of the Advocate. As was not the case last year, the prizes are restricted to undergraduates, and the subjects of the essays are assigned. Six questions are submitted for discussion: they all deal with matters which concern "the weal of Harvard";--two are claimed by athletics; two by matters more strictly academic (not to say pedagogic); and the remaining two deal with what might be called the "social" questions of our College life, using...
During the evening two papers on sending and receiving circuits will be read, one by W. H. Capen 1G.S., and the other by E. W. Chapin...
...more careful article by Louis D. Kornfield '14 entitled "The Political Triangle." The article is well written, showing careful preparation and a real grasp of the essentials of a peculiarly complex and interesting political situation and for this article alone it would be worth while for undergraduates to read the issue. There is also what seems to me a typical utterance of the stand-patter,--a graceful statement of well worn and out worn Republican platitudes by ex-Governor Long. There is also, just why one does not know, in this otherwise admirably serious and pertinent number a lurid word...
...Wilson Clubs will hold their big torchlight paades tonight. Each association has made elaborate preparations, each having secured three bands for its individual parade. The Wilson parade will leave Harvard square at 6.30, and will continue on to Boston Common where a letter written by Woodrow Wilson will be read through a megaphone to the assembled gathering...