Word: social
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...business and social meeting of the Banjo Club was held Monday evening. Permission has been granted the club to take part in the minstrels to be given by the Independent Corps of Cadets, Feb. 13 and 14, and the club has set about procuring uniforms for the occasion. A report was made by the treasurer concerning club medals, and the three officers of the club were appointed a committee to complete the business of the medals, and also to decide on the club colors. It was also decided to have the club dinner at Tafts', Point Shirley, sometime next...
...large as at the junior class dinner last year, still about one hundred members of the class were present. Mr. Trafford, as class president, spoke briefly on the past history of Eighty-nine, and then introduced Mr. Darling, the orator of the evening. The latter reviewed the social, intellectual and religious activity of Eighty-nine's college career. After him, Mr. Hunneman read a poem, one of the most attractive incidents of the evening, fully of witty sallies on the prominent members of the class. Mr. Painter, toastmaster, called on many of those present to reply to various toasts, which...
VIII. There is no argument for a government post-office system which does not apply with equal force to a government telegraph system.- Nation, 37, p. 90; Sen. Rep., 48th Cong., "Statements," p. 66; Jevons, Methods of Social Reform...
...telegraph does not fulfil the conditions for successful government management.- Hadley; Jevous, Methods of social reform...
...Pettit. The club now contains about 1200 members, and there are many names on the waiting list. It is probable that the membership will soon be considerably increased. Many of Boston's leading citizens are members, and it is their idea to make this club of as high a social order as any club in Boston. The situation of the club building is a decidedly favorable one, and its site has become infinitely more valuable than when it was bought. There is no reason why the Boston Athletic Club should not be one of great credit to the city...