Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Next fall, during the first two weeks in October, the Prospect Union will conduct a campaign among the workingmen of Cambridge, Arlington, and Somerville with the purpose of telling these men just what the Union can do for them, and thus increasing its membership. During the past few years, a campaign of this sort has been made and has netted excellent results. For next fall it is planned to reach more men and to reach them more effectively. Arrangements will be made whereby men will be sent in the evenings to meetings of labor unions, social clubs, and church societies...
...interested in public speaking will be given a chance for practical work with audiences which are without exception sympathetic and interested. Men studying social or factory conditions will be given a special field to which they may devote themselves. To all men, both graduates and undergraduates, the Prospect Union, which is a Harvard institution conducted by Harvard men, extends a cordial invitation to help in the work...
...second team affords an excellent opportunity for a large number of men to get good training in baseball, and there is also an additional incentive in the prospect of being taken onto the University squad if sufficient ability is shown. Frank Pomeroy Ferguson '10, of Jamaica, Long Island, has been appointed captain. Ferguson played centre field on his Freshman team and held the same position on the University second team last year...
...that there will be considerable good material available for next year. The fact remains, however, that the athletes in College who could do much to make the basketball team successful, do not take enough interest in the sport to go out for the team, and there is no immediate prospect of their changing their attitude. The comparison with the recent unsuccessful seasons in football is not particularly convincing. Although the team lost to Yale for several years, there was still a great deal of interest and enthusiasm, and a majority of the games was always won. In basketball there...
...annual subscription dance for the benefit of the Prospect Union of Cambridge will be held tonight from 9 until 2 o'clock, in Paul Revere Hall, Mechanics Building Boston. The event is usually held in Copley Hall. Admission will be by invitation only...