Word: performance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...well as a soldier. The right to vote should be deemed a duty and enforced by law. Those unfitted should be excluded from the suffrage. The jury is our most abused institution. It is a duty shirked by the most intelligent citizens and left to men unfitted to perform the office. Lastly, taxation needs reform...
...object of the clubhouse as recently outlined by Odin Roberts '86, is not to furnish a loafing place but a "large animated workshop." The club will perform a very valuable service, being a common centre for Harvard men,--a service which it has until now largely failed to fulfill because of lack of a permanent home. The ambition of the present management is to characterize the appointments and service of the club by academic simplicity. This, it is believed, will stamp the club with a democratic and all-embracing atmosphere which will assure all Harvard men an open door...
...proposed measure brings new difficulties and dangers. It will interfere with the business of the Cabinet by taking the men from the duties which they are intended to perform, and will tend very definitely to change its personnel for the worse, making the Cabinet a body of political leaders. It will interfere with the business of Congress...
...formation of this Pacific Branch of the Associated Harvard Clubs is an important step, in that it means that the Branch can perform for the constituent clubs and for the University a service similar to the one now rendered by the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs, and the Associated Harvard Clubs. The great distance, not only from Cambridge, but between the various clubs, makes organization even more necessary. An additional reason, also, lies in the fact that comparatively few graduates living on the Coast find it possible to get to the meetings of the Associated Harvard Clubs, held generally...
...movies" at the last meeting of the class proved to be so successful that the Entertainment Committee have decided to have them again at a later meeting. For next week, however, they are planning an "amateur night," when various members of the class will perform. In order to do this, it will be necessary for all the men who can play any instrument, give a monologue, dance, or any other sort of entertainment to hand their names at once to E. W. Mahan, Dana 49, or some other member of the Committee. To make this meeting successful, every-one must...