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After a three year's existence without a permanent home, the Harvard Club of Boston has decided to build, and has appointed a committee to select a suitable site for a clubhouse. Although detailed plans for the building will not be decided upon until the situation is chosen, in its general proportions and interior arrangement it will be similar to the house of the Harvard Club of New York City, containing a large assembly hall for dinners and other gatherings, and a great number of private rooms for the accommodation of non-resident members...
...football song competition. All contributions must be sent to the Harvard Song Committee, 16 Oxford street, before 6 o'clock. Each manuscript must bear an assumed name and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing both the assumed and the real name of the composer. The committee will select a few of the best songs, which will be tried at the football mass meetings. If these seem to be well received, they will be used in the final football games of the season...
...Class Song Committee wishes to remind all men of the class that the great competition for a song with original music and words is now open. Music without words, and words without music will be received. In such cases the committee will select the most exquisite contributions of each sort and either bring the composers and poets together, or supply the needed talent itself, but incomplete offerings should be handed in as soon as possible in order that the necessary introduction may be made. It is hoped, however, that wherever possible the manuscripts will be complete...
...being that they have no definite objective in their College lives. One must stand back from one's ideal to get a proper perspective of it. Then, seeing clearly what it is that one wants, one has the first safeguard against being a knotless thread. It is difficult to select one object out of the many offered; but one worthy should be chosen and be given a man's entire force. A thing that is worth while should be done and it should be done hard...
...retained from the last trials have been divided into four teams, two of which will argue the affirmative, and two the negative side of the question: "Resolved, That the United States should fortify the Panama Canal (legal right being conceded)." Nine men will be retained from which to select the two teams...