Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Christmas number of the "Advocate," with its special cover, is decidedly readable throughout. An intelligent and well balanced criticism on Richard Harding Davis is the first main article of the number. "A Bottle of Alcohol" is somewhat unpleasant in subject but shows great facility in short story writing. A Christmas story called "A Gift of Gifts," will interest the regular readers of the Advocate, because they may see in it promises for the future. Its merits are so striking that one feels that time will obliterate the faults it exhibits...
...Graduate Club and the Natural History Society, are fair examples of a very active phase of University life. Side by side with the actual working departments of instruction there exist clubs of good standing which accomplish practical results by extending the work of the scholar and invest the subject matter with a social atmosphere which renders it doubly attractive...
...trial debate held last night to choose the representatives of the Sophomore Debating Club who will speak against the Freshmen was, on the whole, a decidedly creditable performance. The speakers displayed a considerable knowledge of their subject matter, and a very fair amount of ability in handling the material. The competition offers conclusive proof that 1900 is capable at all events of doing effective work in debating without calling upon those of its speakers who are members of the Union or the Forum...
...Edward Atkinson will address the union this evening at 744 Mass. avenue, Cambridgeport. The lecture will be free to men and will begin at 8 o'clock. Following the lecture there will be a general discussion of the subject presented, in which any present may participate. The meeting promises to be one of unusual interest. Harvard men invited...
...Society of Colonial Dames has offered a prize of from $50 to $100 to the students of Radcliffe for the best essay on any subject connected with Colonial history...