Word: union
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permanent Committee for the Investigation of Intercollegiate Athletics of the Carnegie Foundation, and author of the report on athletics which reverberated yesterday in the Athletic Association sanctums of the colleges of the country, will speak at the annual dinner of those connected with Harvard administration and athletics at the Union tonight...
...only agent for bringing to Cambridge lecturers of national and often international reputations, the Union has rendered an important service in recent years. In the past its list of speakers has included such interesting personalities as Christopher Morley, Count Felixvon Luckner, Alexander Woollcott, Ford Madox Ford, and the arctic explorer Stefansson...
...although the Union the occasionally listed members of the University among its speakers, it has taken too little advantage of the large group of interesting lecturers living at its very doors. Many undergraduates, through the restriction of the course requirements of their field of concentration or merely because the number of courses a student may take has definite limit, go through their college careers without having heard more than a few of the "greats" of the University...
...Union could appreciably increase the opportunity for a large number of students to widen their acquaintance with the best teachers of Harvard, even if this acquaintance be of necessity limited only to the fleeting contact between a lecturer and his listeners. It is to be hoped that tonight's speaker, Dr. Reisner, professor of Egyptology, will be but one of many Harvard professors to be heard in the Union's Living Room this year and in years to come...
Professor G. A. Reisner '89, recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on Egyptian archaeology, will address a gathering in the Main Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock to night. His subject will be the high lights of last summer's Harvard expedition for purposes of excavation in the neighborhood of the great pyramids. He will be introduced by E. A. Hooton, Associate Professor of Anthropology...