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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wanted to act as watchers and checkers at the Boston polls on election day, next Tuesday. The work is unremunerative but affords an excellent opportunity to learn how practical politics are conducted. It will be especially interesting on Tuesday because of the exciting political conditions in Boston and because of the strong fight which both parties are making. All men who would like to take part in the work are urged to leave their names and addresses by noon today in Holworthy...
Students in good standing, living at a very considerable distance, who will be granted an extension of time at the beginning of the recess, may learn the exact amount by petitioning the Recorder. No other students are excused from any of their appointments...
...last dinner of the Harvard Engineering Society the topic of an organization of alumni engaged in engineering was broached and we now learn that its formation is practically assured. Surely there can be nothing but advantage to be gained from an association of this sort. Its close affiliation with the Engineering Society will bring the men leaving College to engage in engineering work into closer touch with the graduates who have preceded them, and if the organization be properly conducted the novice will feel that he can look for advice to older men who have begun where he is beginning...
Rumor has it that one of the nightly expressions of enthusiasm is to culminate in a trip to Boston. Just what advantage such an excursion would have it is difficult to see. We have no particular interest in displaying our feelings before the people of Boston--indeed they will learn of them far more generally through the newspaper accounts. Enthusiasm is of most value for its effect upon the players and upon the undergraduates themselves...
...this evening at 7.30 o'clock. G. G. Ball '08 will preside and will lead the cheering. The University band will play, and "The Marseillaise" and "Up the Street" will be sung in addition to the songs on the printed slips. All members of the University are urged to learn the words of all the songs before the meeting...