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OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES

1916-1917

JAMES J. STORROW, President
JAMES E. FEE, First Vice-President
LOUIS E. KIRSTEIN, Second Vice-President
STEPHEN W. REYNOLDS, Treasurer
JAMES E. DOWNEY, Secretary

ADDISON L. WINSHIP, Civic Secretary

Board of Governors
Robert Amory
Wilfred Bolster
George E. Brock
Matthew C. Brush
Louis E. Cadieux
Henry S. Dennison
James E. Downey
Carl Dreyfus
George H. Ellis
John H. Fahey
James E. Fee
Edward J. Frost
George B. Glidden
Henry I. Harriman
Robert O. Harris
Louis E. Kirstein
Robert Luce
Charles J. Martell
Hugh W. Ogden
Elwyn G. Preston
Winfield S. Quinby
Stephen W. Reynolds
Bernard J. Rothwell
James J. Storrow
Frank V. Thompson
Charles H. Thurber
Alonzo R. Weed
John White, Jr.

Executive Committee
*Bernard J. Rothwell
Carl Dreyfus
Elwyn G. Preston
C. H. Thurber
Alonzo R. Weed

Auditing Committee
*W. S. Quinby
Horace Bacon
Edmund Billings

House Committee
*Louis E. Kirstein
†Frederick Homer
Louis E. Cadieux
Clarence W. McGuire
W. E. Skillings

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* Chairman

† Secretary

BOSTON CITY CLUB

BULLETIN

FOR THE INFORMATION OF MEMBERS OF THE CLUB

"This Club is founded in the spirit of good fellowship and every men.
ber of the Club knows every other member without an introduction.

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CLOSING EVENTS OF THE SEASON

Thursday Evening, May 3

DINNER

in Honor of

No. 8

BRIG.-GEN. CLARENCE R. EDWARDS, U. S. A., AND STAFF His Excellency GOV. SAMUEL W. MCCALL will preside.

6.30 o'clock

Tickets at the Civic Secretary's office.

Monday Evening, May 7

DINNER

in Honor of the

OFFICERS OF THE FRENCH ARMY

visiting Harvard University

President JAMES J. STORROW will preside.
Auditorium, 6.30 o'clock

Members only. Tickets at the Civic Secretary's office.

HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE

The Hospitality Committee which was appointed some weeks ago has been holding weekly luncheons at the Club dining room for the purpose of acting upon the many suggestions which its members have submitted. While the committee has not seen fit to adopt or make any radical suggestions or changes, it has been working out a safe and sane course to pursue along the lines of increasing hospitality and promoting good fellowship among our Club members. We have already placed before the House Committee several suggestions which have been accepted and will be adopted within the near future.

One very important matter which we wish to place before the old

members of our Club is the necessity of extending the hand of good fellowship to our new members, many of whom possess only a small acquaintance upon entering our Club. If we expect the new members to take up the work in the future of our present active members of to-day, they certainly should be inoculated at the beginning with the good fellowship and hospitality feeling which our Club stands for. It is up to you brother members to put into daily practice the slogan upon which our Club was founded.

Our committee is open for suggestions relative to the extension of its work, and you are cordially invited to participate in this way. Every suggestion will be given due consideration by the members of the committee at their weekly meeting. HARRY S. KELSEY, Chairman Hospitality Committee.

IMPRESSION OF A CLUB MEMBER

Upon returning to the Boston City Club after ten weeks' absence, during which I traveled more than ten thousand miles and visited many clubs, my appreciation of the value of a membership in this Club is heightened greatly. We are so familiar with the service this Club renders its members that the value of that service does not fully appear until it is brought vividly before us by contrast with the facilities offered by other clubs.

The trend of the times is toward democracy. The Boston City Club is in complete harmony with this social trend. It is representative of democracy's best traditions. All its members, with their differing views of life, and with varying expressions of life, find an opportunity to be encouraged by the sympathy of those who think with them, or corrected, educated, and broadened by association with those holding different opinions. I value highly both these opportunities.

The membership of the Boston City Club is largely made up of men who are still actively engaged in productive work. There is, because of this, an influence on one's thought which is much more stimulating than might be had in a club the membership of which is composed of those whose active work has been accomplished. The vibrant atmosphere of achievement is in the corridors, lounging room, and other departments of the Boston City Club. This atmosphere is a good one to be in. I find it spurs me on to more and better work.

The lyceum of this Club has a remarkable influence. One can attend a lecture by a distinguished man and go away untouched. But when, as often occurs in the Boston City Club, one sits at luncheon or at dinner with a distinguished person of great achievements, and breaks bread with him, and then is permitted, in that atmosphere of sociability and comradeship, to hear the views of one with whom this friendly relation has been established, the influence is sound and lasting.

I look back upon many such occasions during my membership in this Club. I have felt quite differently toward the administration of President Wilson than I would have felt had I not been present at that interesting luncheon with him under the rafters of the old Clubhouse. I have learned much of tolerance and breadth of mind, and have been

greatly informed and entertained, by being present at several occasions when Ex-President Taft has been the guest of honor. It is my impression that those who were present at the luncheon given President Eliot to commemorate his eighty-third birthday, anniversary went away inspired to do better and more work because of his quiet but forcible words.

I find, too, a pleasant appreciation of the open-door policy of the Boston City Club in furnishing such a large number of organizations with facilities for meeting, dining, and carrying forward the coöperative efforts which form such a striking feature of our economic life. Many influences are formed in such meetings within this Club's hospitable doors which broaden as they are applied in social or industrial life, until they effect needed reforms and bring about beneficial changes.

The dominant feature of our Club life is action, not contemplation. ferment, not decay, activity and not repose.

REVIEW OF RECENT EVENTS

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
March 8, 1917

Address by John S. Dennis, of the Canadian Pacific Railway

At the dinner given on this occasion, Mr. Louis Cadieux, of the Board of Governors of the Club, acted as toastmaster. He prefaced his introduction of the speaker by a personal word as to the merits of the French-Canadians. Speeches were made by Richard S. Johnson, president of the Intercolonial Club; by Prof. William J. Cunningham, of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, and by Mr. J. M. W. Hall.

In the auditorium, Mr. Cadieux presided and introduced the speaker of the evening, Mr. John S. Dennis, assistant to the president of the Canadian Pacific Road, who proceded to describe the evolution of Canada from the economic and transportation standpoints. Coming to the period of the war and to contemporary conditions in the Dominion, he said:

Conditions in Canada since the opening of the war have been very, very prosperous. Extraordinary to relate, to-day Canada is an extremely prosperous country. Business is good. There is no unemployment. Everybody is busy. Money is plentiful. But necessarily the condition is somewhat fictitious. Our first relief was due to the enlistment of men. Of that one million increase in our population from Great Britain in the ten-year period that I have spoken of, the larger percentage were men looking for employment, and only a small percentage of men who were looking for homes or employment on the land. They came to us largely from the congested industrial centers of Great Britain, and they were looking for employment, and they got it, up to 1913.

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