Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lectures today and next Wednesday, Mr. Copeland will discuss Defoe as the author not only of "Robinson Crusoe", but of "The Journal of the Plague", "Moll Flanders", and other less known works. The discussion will involve brief comparison of Defoe with other masters of illusion in prose fiction...
During the year the Membership Committee has met only five times. The first meeting was for the purpose of organizing the committee. The second was called to discuss ways and means of increasing the membership, and the next two were held jointly with the House Committee, while the last meeting was called to nominate officers and committeemen for the ensuing year. Thus, the work accomplished by the committee was practically nothing; and what little was done would better have been in the hands of the House Committee. In the first place, the powers of the Membership Committee are only nominal...
...Elder opened the debate. We are to discuss, he said, the transportation problem of the second largest city of the world. The question is of vast importance not only because of the great size of New York City, but because of its peculiar physical character, which makes transportation a daily necessity for the majority of its population. In view of the importance of transportation, the service should be adequate, convenient, and modern. When we examine the existing conditions, however, we find that the service is very unsatisfactory...
...first meeting of candidates for the degrees of Master of Arts, Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Science, will be held in Harvard 1 at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The purpose of the meeting is to elect marshals and committees, and to discuss any questions that may arise in regard to Commencement exercises...
Owing to a lifetime spent in finance, Mr. Gage is particularly well qualified to discuss this question. For five years he served as Secretary of the Treasury under President McKinley and President Roosevelt, and during that time repeatedly proposed alternations in the banking laws that would make currency more elastic and better able to respond to the periodic fluctuations and sudden emergencies in the money market. Mr. Gage has also been president of the largest bank in Chicago, three times president of the American Bankers' Association, and is now president of the United States Trust Company in New York...