Word: socials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Graduate Club, which held its first meeting for this year in Brooks House last week, was founded in 1889. The primary purpose of the club is the promotion of social intercourse among graduate students at Harvard, but it also aims to be of assistance to the cause of higher education, by calling attention, at various times, to questions of especial interest to advanced students. Membership in the Club is open to any student in the Graduate School, to any student in one of the professional schools who has received an A B., and to any officer of the Graduate...
...Harvard Christian Association has secured quarters for a juvenile reading room in East Cambridge and is now furnishing the rooms and establishing a library. Since there is no social room for children at present in that district the rooms will be fitted up with periodicals and books for children from seven to fourteen years of age. Some fifty standard juvenile books are being purchased to form a nucleus. In order that these rooms may become an attractive spot in a decidedly desolate district, it is hoped that Harvard men will help to keep the library growing by contributing more volumes...
...club will probably hold two meetings a month. One is to be of a social nature and at the other a lecture will be given on some subject from Spanish literature...
...advantages of this system are many. Camp pride with its spirit of direct rivalry brings about more spirited debate and more nearly adequate preparation; and besides this, the system gives a social side to debating that does much to make it more attractive...
...Junior debating club will be organized in Sever 35 tonight at 7. The club will probably be conducted as the Sophomore club was last year, and no attempt will be made to make the meetings social. The Senior debating club will meet next Friday in Sever 11 at 7 o'clock. The plan of forming a Senior Congress on the lines of the National Senate or House, divided into Republican and Democratic sides, will be discussed. As Government 6 will not be given this year, the debating club will afford the only speaking practice open to Seniors and a large...