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Address on Local Option...
...Robert H. Magwood will address the Harvard Prohibition League on "Local Option in Massachusetts" in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Magwood is an authority upon this topic, owing to his eight years' service as Secretary of the Massachusetts No-License League, and to his activity in the campaign to secure local option in Boston...
...Brooks House. For the social worker such a conference is invaluable. The comparative experiences elicited, the stimulative effect of formal exposition and open discussion are indispensable aids in such work, as those men realize who participated in last year's conference. Harvard does a very honorable share of the local improvement work. To the perpetuation of this work and, if possible, to an improvement of its quality, the meeting tonight can add very largely...
...plan of entrance examinations, the exchange professorships, all have their common purpose, the spread of Harvard's influence and the broadening of Harvard's horizon. The immediate and quite commendable object of the Territorial Clubs is to promote social intercourse and friendship between acquaintances coming from the same locality. But by this very furthering of acquaintance between men from the same general region, they serve at the same time another and more ultimate purpose--namely; as the first step towards the gathering up of all the men of a given city or state after graduation into a local Harvard...
...return and explain the enterprise here, Dr. Henry S. Houghton, of Johns Hopkins, was made dean in his place. Harvard is represented by four men, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Oregon, California, Dublin, and Copenhagen, one each. As many more institutions of learning, here and abroad, are represented on the local advisory board, which is composed of Americans, Europeans, and Chinese. The purposes of the institution are: (1) To teach modern medicine and surgery to Chinese students; (2) to co-operate with the Chinese Government in inaugurating a greatly needed hygienic reform; (3) to study particularly the diseases of the Orient...