Word: western
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...important college questions. Later the following officers were elected for the coming year: president, T. W. Slocum '90, of New York; vice-presidents, eastern division, W. C. Baylies '84, of Boston; central division, M. D. Follansbee '92, of Chicago, Ill.; southern division, H. M. Atkinson '84, of Atlanta, Ga.; western division, E. M. Grossman '96, of St. Louis, Mo.; Pacific Coast division, H. Chapin '76, of Seattle, Wash.; secretary, M. O. Simons '91, of Cleveland, O.; treasurer, L. E. Osborn '93, of Cincinnati, O. After the elections the proposed amendments to the constitution were adopted, and it was decided...
...Freshman Dormitory Scheme" is a timely and serious discussion which will enlighten the Western delegates if they reach it. "The Great Swamp" is a half breed and Indian story, in general plan like Mr. Lawrence Mott's work, with more accuracy but less picturesquencess and dash. In some passages the sentences are monotonously short. "Gentlemen and Seamen" treats of the old merchant sea-captains in New England and of Salem, the old seaport for trade with the East. The feeling in the article is good; but the imperfect workmanship and the tendency to moralize give the effect of a school...
...Horse Thieves," by H. Hagedorn '07, is a tale of the western prairies. Two horse thieves are caught by the sheriff and thrown into jail. The sheriff's daughter falls in love with the younger and threatens if he is killed, to marry an effeminate minister whom her father hates. The sheriff in order to save his daughter from such a marriage allows the two to leave the sate and his daughter to marry the one she loves...
...Lyman commenced by thanking the ambassador for the honor which he had just conferred on President Eliot, "one who is in himself the embodiment, in the western hemisphere, of high ideals and righteousness." He then spoke of President Taft, "better equipped for his position than any president, who always speaks for himself, broad-minded as a statesman, and one who offers his right hand to every honest man." In conclusion he started that he saw no reason for any undermining of the friendship which now exists between Japan and America...
...Monday evening, May 17, the Dramatic Club will present for the first time four original one-act plays by Harvard men. The first is a comedy of western life by H. Hagedorn '07; the second a morality play, adapted from Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, by F. Schenck '09; the third a dramatic poem by H. Hagedorn '07, and the fourth a comedy dramatized from Charles Lever's "Con Cregan," by L. Hatch '05. The first performance will be in Potter Hall next Monday evening; there will also be performances in Brattle Hall on Tuesday, May 18, and Thursday...