Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dance, but who are unwilling to do so chiefly because they do not think that the Union dance will be sufficiently amusing. Of course it won't be amusing if they are determined that it won't be. The Union dance should above all be a class affair, and every man in the class should be willing to help to the best of his ability to make the dance a success. The former Union dances have been highly successful, because the committees have had the support of their classes. Has the class of 1909 less class feeling than the others...
...them have good reasons for delaying their decision, but we imagine that more have no good excuse, and are merely waiting because they are unwilling to commit themselves to anything so far in advance. Many of these are men who would naturally be relied upon to support an affair of this sort, and who could do much toward making the dance a success. The time for receiving applications has been extended to Saturday, but even with the added time there will probably be many delinquents. Each individual thinks that one late applicant more or less will make little difference...
...each class should feel a certain pride in giving a better dance than its predecessors. In order to attain this end, the men who are already overburdened with dances must do their part as well as the less socially inclined, for anything which is so essentially a class affair must be generally supported by the class...
...Agora and Forum of last year, there are now five independent societies, with a total membership of about 85. Two of them still retain the names of Agora and Forum, but they have been change constitutionally in the direction of informality. Debating has now become an essentially informal affair, and three of the clubs do not even have offices. The Agora and Forum, as they now exist, have 25 and 20 members respectively, and hold weekly meetings which have been well attended. H. W. Hines '09 and P. B. Carter '08 are their respective heads. Of the three other clubs...
...tonight at 8 o'clock. The concert will be the last before the joint concert with Yale the night before the Harvard-Yale game. Admission tonight will be by invitation only, and invitations have been sent out by the various Houses connected with the South End Social Union. The affair will be in the nature of a house-warming, and there will be dancing after the concert...