Word: winter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second meeting to organize a Speakers' Club in the University, held in Lawrence 1 yesterday afternoon, Professor I. L. Winter '86 and A. A. Ballantine '04 offered suggestions, and the committee of arrangements reported perfected plans for organization...
Professor Winter suggested that the meetings be made of vital interest to more than mere members, that they be made to attract the public as well as members of the University. This might perhaps be accomplished by the program being varied as much as possible, by having not only travel talks, recitations, illustrated lectures, but music and occasional talks of a humorous nature. A. A. Ballantine '04 emphasized the value of public speaking, and brought out the advantage a trained man has over those untrained in this respect...
...possible. Membership will be restricted, the members being elected by a committee composed of A. C. Blagden 3L., F. M. Blagden '09, L. Crocker '11, J. S. Davis 1G., F. F. A. Pearson '11, A. M. Rensselaer sC., J. G. Waid '10, E. T. Wentworth '09, and Professor Winter as a permanent member. This committee shall be replenished by two or three new members elected every spring, to take the places of those lost by graduation. This committee shall select the charter members, nominate officers, and call the next meeting...
...second meeting to organize a Speakers' Club in the University will be held in Lawrence 1 this afternoon at 5.15 o'clock. The committee of arrangements which was appointed at the preliminary meeting on November 24 will report plans for the organization of the club. Professor I. L. Winter '86 will describe the purposes of the club and its intended results; and A. A. Ballantine '04 will speak on the practical use of public speaking. All who attended the first meeting and any other members of the University interested in public speaking are invited to be present...
...Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has recently received two interesting and valuable accessions. One, by the gift of Dr. Alexander Agassiz '55, director of the University Museum, consists of a valuable collection of war implements, household utensils and trinkets, collected by Dr. Agassiz during his visit to Africa last winter. The collection comprises more than 200 specimens, obtained from the Bantu, Nandi, Lumbwa and Masai tribes of negroes, in the vicinity of Lake Victoria, British Uganda Protectorate, and British East Africa. These tribes are from three separate African stocks and speak three different languages. There are also some specimens from...