Word: working
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Prospect Union will open its nineteenth year of work in Cambridge next Monday evening at 744 Massachusetts avenue. The Union is an educational and social club for men, conducted by wage-earners and by students, and teachers from Harvard University. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education, through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers...
...Prospect Union has reorganized its system of work this year in order to make it more efficient and connected. All the courses will be divided into departments of allied subjects under the guidance of a chairman in each department, while the various courses will be given by different teachers...
...effort has been made to correlate all the work and thus enable any student to continue his courses from year to year toward a definite goal. All new applicants will consult a board of advisers who will determine their fitness to enter any course; in this way, they will only take the studies for which they are fully prepared and thus derive the greatest benefit. If an applicant is not prepared for any course he desires to take, every effort will be made to help him. This will be aided further by grouping the courses in the different departments which...
...candidates for the University and Freshman track and cross-country teams will be held in the Assembly Room of the Union this evening at 7 o'clock. The speakers will be Mr. W. F. Garcelon L.'95, Captain Little and Coach Quinn. Not only will the fall work be outlined but the plans for the whole year will be discussed. It is essential, therefore, that all men interested in track work, whether experienced or not, should attend the meeting...
...Haven, Conn., October 4, 1909.--After the usual preliminary practice in starting, catching punts and tackling, a scrimmage was held between the university team and the college eleven, the former scoring ten points. Field made both touchdowns. The features of the play were Deming's punting, Goebel's work in the line, and a 40-yard run by Philbin around right end. In a 15-minute scrimmage the freshmen held the second college eleven to no score. Captain Coy appeared on the field for the first time since his illness, but he took no active part in the practice...