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This afternoon Mr. Lincoln Steffens will give the first of the most important series of lectures which have perhaps ever been given under the auspices of Harvard. At different times during the winter the undeniably foremost writers and thinkers upon social and economic conditions in the United States will speak upon those particular phases of our development in which they are respectively most deeply interested...
...December 16 a novice meet will be held, which is open to all men who have never participated in a University meet or exhibition. After the Christmas recess the University team will be chosen and exhibitions will be given at Andover, Exeter, Worcester Academy and in the Brookline Municipal Gymnasium. Meets have been arranged with Yale and Columbia, and a triangular meet has been scheduled with Amherst and Haverford. These meets will take place in Cambridge with the exception of the one-with Yale, which will be held in New Haven. The intercollegiate meet will come some time in March...
...benefit of men who desire to take part in some form of organized sport this winter, the following summary of the varied opportunities for athletic activity is given...
...This will probably be the only competition in gymnastics that will be held entirely within the University, although an open meet may be held at the end of the season. Dr. Sargent has offered a cup to the winner of the greatest number of points and medals will be given to the winners of the different events. Regular practice is being held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays under the direction of Coach Evans. After Christmas the University team will be chosen and will hold about twelve exhibitions and meets ending with the intercollegiate contest in March...
During the coming winter a series of lectures will be given on "The Social Problem and its Remedies." The first six lectures will deal with problems in politics, poverty, vice and crime, medicine, law, and economics. Lectures on remedies for these problems will follow. The remedies proposed by the conservatives, the insurgents, the new nationalists, the single taxers, the anarchists, the individualists, the socialists, and the church will be explained in separate lectures. Among the lecturers will be Lincoln Steffens, managing editor of McClure's Magazine, and associate editor of the American Magazine, Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National...