Word: forum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...understand rightly the conditions under which the Agora and the Forum ceased activities a few years ago, the chief reason why debating failed was that the control of the two societies was allowed to fall into the hands of a small group of men whose leadership was unpopular. If a debating club is to attract members from more than a limited section of the student body its officers should be so chosen that they will represent a number of different interests. Under a representative set of officers, and with competitions for places on the University teams and for the various...
...topography of ancient Italy. He has lived in Rome most of the time since 1880, being appointed secretary of the German Institute in 1887. He has been active in collecting and publishing Roman inscriptions and has written much on archaeological topics, including an excellent book on the Roman Forum. The subject of the lecture this evening suggests an address recently delivered at Harvard by Signor Ferrero; it will be of interest to see whether Professor Huelsen agrees with the Italian scholar in all points...
President Eliot will speak before the Civic Forum on the subject of "Lawlessness" this evening in Carnegie Hall, New York. After the President's speech the question will be open for general discussion. The Civic Forum is an organization in New York whose objects are the discussion of public questions and the promotion of international good-will. Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., h.'90, will preside at the meeting. Tomorrow morning President Eliot will deliver a short address before the students of the Horace Mann Schools and Teachers' College...
...Forum--"A Prose Epic of Marriage," F. T. Cooper...
...accordance with a resolution passed by the University Debating Council on Thursday, November 7, to the effect that upper-class debating should be left to individual enterprise, an entirely new system of debating clubs has grown up within the University. In the place of the 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...