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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dean Briggs acted as toastmaster, and introduced Mr. Arthur Foote '74 as the first speaker. He spoke on the great progress made by the Musical Department since he was an undergraduate and emphasized the need of a new building which should be the seat of all musical activity at Harvard. Dr. S. W. Langmaid '59 spoke on the same general topic, laying especial stress on the fact that as Harvard was the first college to recognize music among its courses, and allow students to take music courses both for entrance examinations and for degrees, she should be the first...
Professor Royce, Professor L. R. Lewis '88 of Tufts, and Mr. Arthur B. Whiting '90, all spoke on the necessity of a muical education. Too much stress has been laid upon the idea that in order to be musical one must be a musician, but all that is necessary to have a proper appreciation of good music as an art. These speakers commended the work undertaken by the Musical Club in attempting to interest all men in the love and study of music for its own sake. Professor Lewis told of the attempts which have been made to introduce music...
...Tchaikovsky, the prominent Russian revolutionist, who recently visited the University and spoke in the Union, has given to the College Library all the publications of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party in Russia since 1902, which include 96 books and pamphlets, and a full set of the periodical "Revolutsionnaya Rossiya...
...Francis, defending the position taken by the government, presented the problem of Russian conditions from a point of view opposite to that of Aladyin and Tschaykovsky, who spoke in the Union about two weeks ago. He said that the Russian people had just awakened from a period of inertia, and a flush of activity is now passing over them: but it is difficult to find any moral or intellectual impulse in this activity. On the country, licentiousness and gambling were never more prevalent. The great cry of the people has been for more land, but it is a well-known...
About 15 men spoke in each of the club trials...