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...first of the series of readings and lectures to be given by the Cantabrigia Club for the benefit of the Radcliffe Scholarship fund was held last night in Sanders Theatre. The audience though large showed an almost ludicrous want of humor, preferring to read sentiment and pathos into Mr. Hawkins's selections, rather than to laugh at the delicate and delightful wit which makes them so charming. Even two selections from the "Dolly Dialogues" did not quicken the audience entirely. This was the more strange considering that Mr. Hawkins read well and that all but one of his selections were...
DEAR SIR:- Nothing can better increase the desire for a University Club than to let the students hold a mass meeting in Sanders Theatre. I for one believe that they want such a club, and that they will want it still more after they will want it still more after they have said so by personally attending a spirited rally...
...building of such a club will be a very expensive thing and the graduates will certainly not subscribe unless the undergraduates show that they want it. It seems to me that without doubt we do want it, and that the sooner we point out to the graduates our desire, the better...
...hoped therefore that some means may be found to surmount this difficulty, but after all it is a mere matter of detail. The important point is that the undergraduates want a University Club, and are prepared to do what they can under the guidance of the graduates to get it. It will take time and hard work. Therefore the sooner a beginning be made the better. This particular sum would be a good nest egg, but the money can be obtained from some other source, if all concerned will really get down to work...
...that in college, the instructors sought to give while it was the students' share to take; that the student was treated as a mature man, willing to work for his own pleasure. "We insist," he said, "that you do what you do here, for yourselves, not for us. We want to see every man pushing forward in pursuit of his own distinct interests...