Word: western
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...regretted that the Musical Clubs can not take as long a Western trip as had been planned, for Harvard graduates living beyond the Mississippi have little opportunity to come into contact with our College organizations. How to maintain their interest in the University, and how to attract more students from the western half of the country are problems, the solution of which has only been begun in the last few years by renewed activity on the part of University officials...
...Faculty. Two years ago the Faculty was persuaded to allow a resumption of the custom. Tradition says that i the early days the undergraduates who constituted the clubs were not always as careful as they might have been in their observance of the proprieties, and in consequence the Western graduates were forced to ask that no more visits be allowed. That conditions have greatly changed since that time, the success of the 1907 trip is sufficient proof, and it is for those who go this year to strengthen the good impression which has been created...
...final arrangements for the Musical Clubs' western trip during the Christmas recess have been made. Except for the trip in 1907, this is the first trip that the Musical Clubs have taken for fifteen years. It will be much more extensive than ever heretofore, as 50 men will be chosen to go by competition from the Glee, Mandolin, and Banjo Clubs. Manager J. S. Reed '10, and Assistant Manager R. S. Pattee '11, will accompany the clubs to make the necessary arrangements...
Concerts at the following places on the western trip of the Musical Clubs have been definitely decided upon: Springfield, December 22; Cincinnati, Ohio, December 25; Minneapolis, Minn., December 27; Chicago, December 28; Omaha, Neb., December 29; Denver. Colo., December 30. Between the concerts in Springfield and in Cincinnati, a concert will be arranged either at Pittsburg or Syracuse...
...Characteristic Scenes in Chill, Bolivia, and Peru." This lecture will be open only to members of the Union. The slides which Professor Brewster will show this evening, depicting the scenery of South America, are unusually excellent, having gained very favorable comment during his lecture tour of the large western universities last summer...