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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...recently appointed Freshman Smoker Committee has organized a series of small class smokers to be held every Wednesday in the rooms of various members of the class. About fifty men will be invited to each smoker. As soon as each member of the class has attended one of these weekly meetings a large smoker for the entire class will be given in the Union. The first of these smokers will be held Wednesday evening in Claverly 19. Every man is urged to attend the smoker to which he is invited...
...clock. This year there are not as many events as in former years, but the number of entries in each event is proportionately greater. There are about 325 entries, and some 185 individual men will take part. The carnival will continue tomorrow afternoon when the finals of the various events will be run off. This afternoon only the trial heats in the track events, and the elimination trials in the field events, will take place. There is no charge for admission...
...Speakers' Club has never been intended as a rival of the Dramatic Club, as you seem to suggest, but was formed by men interested in various forms of platform speaking and oral expression. Some of the members are interested in debating, others along the lines of the Boylston Competition, others in dramatic interpretation with reference to good elocution and vocalization, while there are still others who simply want practice in expressing their thoughts before an audience with clearness and conciseness. The arrangements committee in outlining the work of the club has been forced to keep these various interests in mind...
...international smoker, combined with an entertainment in which members of various nationalities will take part, is to be given by the Cosmopolitan Club in its rooms in Holyoke House this evening at 8.30 o'clock for members and invited guests. The features will be a sword drill by the German members, shuttlecock by the Chinese, and an exhibition of jiu-jitsu by the Japanese. The American part will consist in sleight-of-hand tricks. Singing of national anthems by the national groups of members will end the entertainment...
Every year it is apparently necessary to revile the Freshman class for not supporting its various teams. The communication printed in another column this morning shows that only about 50 Freshmen considered it worth their while to report for the first practice of the crew, a state of affairs which is particularly hard to understand after Harvard's success in rowing last year. Probably the best oarsmen in the class are among this number, but as it has so often been shown, good oarsmen can be developed from men of no experience. It is to be hoped that the size...