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There will doubtless be a very considerable number of students in the vicinity of Cambridge during the holidays. To all such men we heartily commend the invitation of President and Mrs. Eliot to the Christmas Eve reception in Phillips Brooks House. One often feels in our academic life the almost total lack of personal contact and fellowship with the older men of our community; and the comparatively few attempts which meet with any success at all in opening up this phase of life which is so full of benefit for both the mature and the growing members of the University...
...intention to proclaim here that all men attending the Christmas Eve reception or one of the University teas or similar functions will, on crossing the threshold of Phillips Brooks House, feel immediately the warmth of comradeship with the members of the Faculty, or any particular professor who is more personally interested in the undergraduates as men than as students. We are certain, nevertheless, that such opportunities are often given, and that the President's reception next week is one which should appeal to a goodly number...
President and Mrs. Eliot request the pleasure of the company of all students at the University absent from home, who may remain in Cambridge during the Christmas recess, at Phillips Brooks House on Christmas Eve, Tuesday, December 24, from 8.30 to 10 o'clock...
...this connection we are led to speak of the University band. This praise-worthy University organization is usually hurried forth on the eve of the Yale game to accompany the singing, and the lack of concerted practice generally results, either in the exhaustion of musicians and singers alike in an effort to keep together, or, when harmony is despaired of, in a total disregard of each other...
This evening the undergraduates will enjoy one of the rare opportunities for hearing a Cambridge concert by the University musical clubs, and the reception accorded to these organizations should be such, as to insure the permanence of this custom. Coming on the eve of the Yale baseball game and two days before Class Day, this concert forms a part of the Class Day festivities--one which should be generally appreciated and which should receive substantial support...