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...annual meeting held for that purpose in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Dean Hurlbut will preside, making a short preliminary statement of the purposes of the meeting, and later awarding the distinctions. The address will be made by President Lowell, and will be his first long formal address since his inauguration. The singing will be by the University Glee Club, and the audience is requested to join in the singing of the first and last songs, the words of which will be printed in the programs...
These meetings for the award of distinctions were established ten years ago by the Faculty as a public recognition of the scholars of the College. Invitations are sent out to undergraduate scholars of the first and second groups, the Governing Boards, the members of the Faculty, to scholars of the first group who have graduated within the last two years, and to a few others; but the meeting is open to all members of the University and to the general public. Among the speakers in former years on the same occasion have been the late Senator George Frisbie Hoar...
...seats on the platform will be reserved for members of the Faculty and the Governing Boards, and those on the floor for scholarship, prize, and detur winners and former winners of distinctions. Seats in the first balcony will be reserved for invited guests and members of the University until 7.55 o'clock, when the public will be admitted. The second balcony will be open to the public throughout...
...first speaker was E. J. Arnstine '13. The question is purely one of the practicality of the tax. If adopted, would the income tax work equitably? Both methods of imposing this tax are disastrous. The income declared would not be one-quarter of the usual amount. It would corrupt and demobilize the people as was done in England. The second method of obtaining the tax by assessors is obviously difficult. Would the freedom-loving Frenchmen submit to having their pockets searched? This was the cause of the French Revolution...
...Sophomore entertainment committee at a meeting yesterday decided to hold a series of four dinners during the year. One-fourth of the class will be invited to each of these dinners by the committee in charge, the first will be held in Trophy Room of the Union on the evening of January 18. In order to insure their success, each man should try to come when he in invited. The committee will endeavor to secure some outside speaker on each occasion, and there will be informal speeches by members of the class...