Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class dinner tomorrow night. Not only have most of those who have signed for tickets neglected thus far to purchase them, but over half of the class has not even signified its intention of attending the dinner. The mere fact that the dinner is sure to be a pleasant affair and that several good speeches will be made ought alone to draw a large number of men; but the knowledge that this is the first occasion on which all the members of the class are given a chance to come together and see one another for more than...
...held on Friday evening, April 2. The men representing the Union are W. Denman L. S. and W. H. Beal '97. The Forum's representatives are W. T. B. Williams '97 and W. J. Truesdell '97. The question will be "Resolved, That the intervention of Greece in the Cretan affair is justifiable." After the opening speeches the debate will be open to members of the clubs from the floor...
...comes tonight when Harvard, after a long succession of victories, has lost a debate and now makes the attempt to regain the position once held. The Harvard speakers, whether they win or lose, deserve the thanks of the University for the work they have done in preparation for the affair. But, after all, the fact that a decision is to be made, that one side must defeat the other, gives these debates the important position which they now hold, and the Harvard men must go to Sanders Theatre tonight with the firm resolve to merit the decision of the judges...
...hold a Sophomore dinner. Ninety-eight, however, has not had a well attended meeting of any kind since the first election of class officers, and for this reason all who can are urged to make their arrangements to come next Tuesday night. To make the dinner a representative affair and a success, a good majority of the class must be present...
...Union show conclusively that the conditions under which such interclub debates are held must be changed, or that they must be given up altogether. Although the greatest care was taken when this debate was being arranged to announce both at Harvard and Columbia that it was a strictly interclub affair, most of the New York and Boston papers have, as usual, spoken of its as "between Harvard and Columbia," aad a far too general impression has thus been established that it was an intercollegiate debate. As long as debates are held in this way between clubs of different universities, elaborately...