LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS, SEASON 1915-16

JULY 3, 1915.

Luncheon to Mayor Henry W. Kiel, St. Louis. Vice-President W.
T. A. Fitzgerald presiding. Speakers: George W. Coleman; Hon.
William F. Murray; Mayor Kiel.

JULY 14.

Luncheon to Wilbur C. Phillips, Secretary Committee on Unit Organization, Washington, D. C. Vice-President W. T. A. Fitzgerald Speakers: Hon. Samuel J. Elder; H. Staples Potter; John N. Cole; Addison L. Winship; E. T. Hartman; March G. Bennett; Wilbur C. Phillips.

presiding.

AUGUST 3.

Reception to the students of the American City Bureau. George S. Smith spoke on the work of the Boston City Club. John Nolen spoke on "Commercial and Social Advantages of City Planning." Luncheon was served.

AUGUST 27.

Luncheon to the visiting Governors of the United States. Governor
David I. Walsh, of Massachusetts, presided. Speakers: Governor
Winfield S. Hammond, Minnesota; Governor Frank M. Byrne,
South Dakota; Mayor James M. Curley, Boston; Hon. George von
L. Meyer, Former Secretary of the Navy.

OCTOBER 7.

Concert by the Boston Quintet, assisted by Edwin M. Whitney,
Reader; Leon van Vliet, 'Cellist. Address by President Frederick
P. Fish.

OCTOBER 13.

Luncheon to Lord Aberdeen. President Frederick P. Fish presiding.
Speakers: Hon. James M. Curley; Lord Aberdeen.

OCTOBER 14.

Hon. Edward F. McSweeney, Chairman of the Port Directors
"Future of the Port of Boston." George S. Smith presiding. Speakers
at dinner: Vice-President James W. Rollins; Hon. H. C. Atwill,
Attorney-General; Hon. James F. Cavanagh; Sylvester Baxter;
James B. Connolly; Dr. F. D. Donoghue; Hon. W. T. A. Fitzgerald.

OCTOBER 19.

Equal Suffrage Debate - For: Hon. Joseph Walker; Hon. Samuel
L. Powers. Against: Hon. Robert Luce; Hon. John A. Sullivan.
Hon. L. A. Frothingham presiding. Speakers at dinner: Hon. W.
T. A. Fitzgerald, Toastmaster; Franklin T. Kurt; Mitchell Wing;
Col. John P. Irish.

OCTOBER 21.

Rustom Rustomjee -"India and the War." James P. Munroe presiding. Illustrated. Miran Sevasly spoke on conditions in Armenia at the dinner.

OCTOBER 28.

Luncheon to Hon. Frederic C. Howe, Commissioner of Immigration,
New York. Harvey S. Chase presiding. Speakers: Mayor Curley;
H. J. Skeffington; B. J. Rothwell; J. R. Coolidge, Jr.

OCTOBER 28.

Eric H. Ewartz, Superintendent Fore River Shipbuilding Company.
Illustrated lecture"The Submarine, Its Building and Operation.'
S. W. Reynolds presiding. Speakers at dinner: C. H. Thurber;
Herbert S. Weaver; Dr. George W. Field, Chairman Fisheries and
Game Commission.

NOVEMBER 2.

Election returns by stereopticon.

NOVEMBER 4.

Francis Neilson, M.P.-"Has Democracy Failed?" Rev. Harold
Marshall presiding. Speakers at dinner: Victor J. Loring; H. S.
Weaver; March G. Bennett; S. W. Reynolds; George P. Morris.

NOVEMBER 5.

Luncheon to Ex-President William H. Taft. Speakers: President
Frederick P. Fish; Samuel J. Elder; Mayor James M. Curley; Hon.
Francis Neilson, M.P.; Governor Samuel W. McCall.

NOVEMBER IO.

Luncheon to J. W. Bengeough. George S. Smith presiding. Mr.
Bengeough spoke on "Taxation."

NOVEMBER II.

Prof. Scott Nearing-"Public Opinion." Prof. Albert Bushnell
Hart presided. Speakers at dinner, W. T. A. Fitzgerald presiding:
Rev. William H. van Allen; Rev. E. S. Meredith; John Kendrick
Bangs.

NOVEMBER 12.

City Planning Conference. James P. Munroe presiding. J. Randolph
Coolidge, Jr., Toastmaster. Speakers: Robert A. Woods; Charles
F. Gettemy; Ralph Adams Cram; William H. Sayward; Louis C.
Newhall; Dr. David Snedden.

Hon. Champ Clark-"United States of America in the Twentieth
Century." Hon. W. F. Murray presiding. Speakers at dinner:

Vice-President W. T. A. Fitzgerald, Toastmaster; Hon. Edmund
Billings; Hon. James A. Gallivan; Hon. Richard Olney, 2d; Hon.
William H. Carter; Hon. F. W. Dallinger; Hon. Peter F. Tague.

NOVEMBER 23.

Grand Opera. Madame Maria Gay; Misses Elizabeth Campbell and
May Scheider and Jose Mardones; Ralph Lyford, Accompanist.
Vice-President George S. Smith spoke.

DECEMBER 2.

Hon. J. Adam Bede-"Our Nation: Its Problems and Progress."
Vice-President George S. Smith presiding. Speakers at the dinner:
Hon. Robert O. Harris, Toastmaster; C. J. Martell; Prof. G. M.
Harmon; Hon. A. P. Langtry; Captain H. M. Blackstone; and
Solomon Lewenberg.

DECEMBER 7.

Illustrated lecture -"Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Indians." Laurence D. Kitchell. F. S. Arnold presiding. Moving pictures and stereopticon.

DECEMBER 9.

Annual Club dinner. Guest, Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Former Am-
bassador to France. President James J. Storrow presiding. Speakers:
Vice-President George S. Smith; Frederick P. Fish; Geoffrey B.
Lehy; David F. Tilley.

DECEMBER 14.

Boston City Club night at the Opera House. Special performance of "Carmen."

DECEMBER 16.

Norman Angell-"America's Place in the Community of Nations."
George P. Morris presiding. Speakers at dinner: Rev. H. B. Grose;
Hon. J. B. Hull; Rev. E. S. Meredith; William Orr; and George
H. Nutting.

DECEMBER 23.

Col. H. L. Hawthorne, U. S. A. (Retired)-"Modern Ordnance." (Illustrated.) Adjutant-General C. H. Cole presiding. Speakers at dinner: George S. Smith; C. H. Cole; Brigadier-General Philip Reade; Walter Humphries; Surgeon-General F. P. Williams; W. T. A. Fitzgerald; Col. F. F. Cutting; George B. Glidden.

DECEMBER 31.

New Year's Eve celebration. Vaudeville, moving pictures, music. JANUARY 6, 1916.

Capt. Granville Fortescue -"The War on All Fronts.". Illustrated by moving pictures and stereopticon. Gen. Walter E. Lombard presiding.

JANUARY 7.

Luncheon to Richard S. Childs. Subject of discussion: "The Short
Ballot." Hon. C. L. Burrill presiding. Speakers; Prof. F. N.
Davenport and Mr. Childs.

JANUARY 13.

William Lyman Underwood. Illustrated lecture -"Fisherman's
Luck." C. J. Martell presiding. Speakers at dinner: Rev. Peter
Black; John C. Crosby; Prof. C. W. Doten.

JANUARY 20.

Luncheon to Ex-Mayor Thomas N. Hart, on his eighty-seventh birth-
day. Vice-President George S. Smith presiding. Mayor James M.
Curley Toastmaster. Speakers: Dr. Charles W. Eliot; Ex-Mayor
Josiah Quincy; Ex-Mayor Edwin U. Curtis; T. B. Fitzpatrick; Ex-
Mayor John F. Fitzgerald; Daniel J. Kiley; Ex-Mayor Thomas N.
Hart.

JANUARY 20.

Howard H. Gross "Tariff Commission League." Vice-President
W. T. A. Fitzgerald presiding. Speakers at dinner: William Bailie;
F. W. Whitcher; A. J. Philpott; George L. Walker.

JANUARY 21.

Luncheon to Walter D. MoodyChicago Plan Commission. Vice-
President W. T. A. Fitzgerald presided.

JANUARY 27.

Luncheon to Major-General Leonard A. Wood-"Preparedness."
Adjutant-General Charles H. Cole presiding.

JANUARY 27.

Concert by the Amphion Club. E. Cutter, Jr., Conductor. Sixty voices.

FEBRUARY 3.

Hon. Dudley Field Malone -"Permanent American Prosperity."
Hon. Edmund Billings presiding. Speakers at dinner: Hon. C. L.
Burrill; Hon. John F. Malley; Hon. George L. Barnes; Hon. J. A.
Maynard; Hon. H. J. Skeffington; Hon. W. T. A. Fitzgerald.

FEBRUARY 9.

Luncheon to David Jayne Hill. Richard H. Dana presiding.
FEBRUARY IO.

Lincoln Celebration. Speakers at dinner: Hon. W. F. Murray; Dr.
F. D. Donoghue; S. K. Ratcliffe. In the auditorium, Robert Luce
presiding: Hon. Nelson P. Browen; Denis A. McCarthy; Hon. Guy
A. Ham; Dr. A. E. Winship.

FEBRUARY 14.

Luncheon to Robert Catherwood and Robert W. Belcher. Subject

of meeting "Civil Service." Richard H. Dana, presiding. Speakers: Mr. Catherwood and Mr. Belcher.

FEBRUARY 15.

Luncheon to William H. Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton discussed conditions in Poland.

FEBRUARY 16.

Luncheon to Mayor C. M. Fassett, of Spokane, Wash. Prof. W. B.
Munro presiding.

FEBRUARY 17.

Edward A. Filene -"American Business After the War." J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., presiding. Speakers at dinner: F. V. Thompson; Meyer Bloomfield; Dr. J. L. Tryon.

FEBRUARY 24.

E. M. Newman Travel Talk"Brazil." Moving pictures. FEBRUARY 28.

Henry Berger, Jr. — “The Columbia, America's Great Highway, from
Mount Hood to the Sea." Illustrated. E. A. Filene presiding.

MARCH 2.

Operatic Concert - Mme. Evelyn Scotney, Soprano; Miss Florence
Jepperson, Contralto; Howard White, Basso; George Rasely, Tenor;
Herbert Seiler, Accompanist.

MARCH 4.

Luncheon to Morris L. Cooke. Prof. Felix Frankfurter presiding.
Subject: "Public Utilities."

MARCH 6.

Luncheon to Peter Witt. Rev. Harold Marshall presiding. Subject; "Street Car Traffic."

MARCH 9.

John Cowper Powys "American vs. European Ideal of Life." Prof.
W. Z. Ripley, of Harvard, presiding. Speakers at dinner: Vice-
President George S. Smith; Prof. G. M. Harmon; S. K. Ratcliffe;
Dr. F. D. Donoghue; Leon R. Eyges.

MARCH 13.

Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone. E. K. Hall presiding. Speakers at dinner: W. T. A. Fitzgerald; Hon. Calvin Coolidge; Charles F. Read; Dr. Clarence J. Blake; Alfred Hemenway; Thomas J. Feeney. Welcome by Mayor James M. Curley. MARCH 16.

Hon. Henry Breckinridge -"Preparedness." Henry P. Brown pre-
siding. Speakers at dinner, W. T. A. Fitzgerald presiding: Hon.
Edmund Billings; Hon. Robert O. Harris; Hon. Charles M. Bruce;
Adjutant-General Charles H. Cole.