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...President for the ensuing year. In order to gain their end they persuaded the present holder of the office to stand for another term. He consented. A canvas was instituted resulting in a large majority of the members of the Union pledging their support to Mr. Furber. On the eve of the election postal cards were sent to the adherents of the latter, calling upon them to remember their pledge and not to forget the day of the meeting. On the day of the election a placard, similar to the postal card notice, and signed by the same men, appeared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/2/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - Do the men here in college realize their priveleges in having distinguished clergymen at Appleton Chapel morning after morning to conduct prayers? Very few realize, perhaps, the significance of the presence during the present week of Dr. Brooks, who is just on the eve of sailing for Europe. It is not small thing for as busy a man as he to give half of every day to Harvard College, where so many men are ignorant of the fact that he is here among us and taking, as a Harvard man himself, a deep and daily interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/24/1887 | See Source »

...Osgood, the Rev. Dr. Bellows, Dr. John O. Stone, Frederick A. Lane, and other prominent Harvard graduates in the city. At first it had a room in Fourth avenue and later on Broadway, below Union square. Monthly reunions, with a supper, and an annual dinner on the eve of Washington's birthday were the prominent features from the first, and for many years these have been held at Delmonico's, first in Fourteenth street and since at the present establishment in Twenty-sixth street and Fifth avenue. For two years they were held at the University Club Theatre, until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Club's House. | 4/26/1887 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/5/1887 | See Source »

...commencement speaking offers an admirable opportunity to those who wish to criticise. As a rule the men who are selected to speak have had no elocutionary training whatever. A few may have been induced to attend the voluntary classes just long enough to dishearten them upon the eve of speaking. Is it any wonder that from such material such results follow? The university has just cause for congratulation that the "dramatic expression" has passed as useless for practical purposes. But that does not aid matters. Men will not spend their time in oratorical drill unless they are compelled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/20/1886 | See Source »

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