Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Civil Service Reform League to be elected as honorary members. Professor Hart, Mr. Lowell and Mr. Dana were elected as honorary members last night under this provision. The constitution calls for at least five receptions or smoke-talks to be held during the year, at which invited guests shall speak, and to which members may bring their friends. The first of these will be announced shortly. Men who desire to join the club, and old members who wish to renew their membership, may do so at any of these smoke talks, or by sending their names, with the initiation...
Professor A. B. Hart, Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell and Mr. Richard H. Dana will deliver short addresses tonight at the opening of the annual business meeting of the Civil Service Reform Club, to be held in Sever 11 at 7.30 o'clock. Professor Hart will speak on the historical features of civil service reform in this country and on the present young man's interest in the work; Mr. Lowell, who has just returned from England after a year spent in the study of the English colonial system, will speak on the English methods and experiences; and Mr. Dana will...
...Athletic Association of Harvard Graduates proposes to give a complimentary subscription dinner to the winning 'Varsity crew on November 17, the evening before the Harvard-Yale game. President Eliot, Gov. Wolcott, Gov. Roosevelt, Gen. Bancroft, Mayor Quincy, C. C. Beaman, and other prominent graduates will be asked to speak...
After the lecture it was announced that Professor Macvane would speak next Wednesday evening on the same subject, by request...
...definite set of instructions is to be drawn up and printed upon slips sent the judges before the debate. During the debate the judges are to be seated separately in order to avoid the present tendency of the debaters to speak to one part of the house. In the selection of judges, a list of twenty will be submitted together with the question, six weeks before the debate. Two weeks later nine names, in order of preference, will be returned. Of these nine the first three in order who accept will be chosen to judge the debate...