MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE The Membership Committee will, from time to time, publish names of applicants for membership in the Club. Members are requested to scan the list closely and notify the Chairman of the Committee if they have knowledge of facts which would make any applicant on the list undesirable as a member of the Club. Such information will be received in strict confidence, and members are urged to cooperate with the Committee in this respect, in order that undesirable men may not be elected to membership in the Club. CHARLES M. ROGERS, Chairman. APPLICANTS FOR MEMBERSHIP The following applicants are to be considered for membership in the Club. The Membership Committee would welcome any helpful comments from members concerning any of these applicants. Fletcher, Arthur W. Barnes, Edward F. Berg, Herman J. Luce, Thomas D., Jr. Cashman, James E. Howlett, James D. Clapp, Charles E. Williams, Edward G. Williams, Edward R. Allen, Thomas S. Craig, David R. Harrison, Edward F. Powers, Henry T. Whittemore, W. M. Hurley, Dennis J. Lochman, Dean E. Ross, Peter C. Stevens, Ritchie H. Webber, Carl S. Doyle, Bernard W. George, Norman H. Mace, James W. Carroll, Philip M. Connolly, Jos. A. Merrill, Roger Drisko, Fred M. Rowe, Austin C. Emerson, W. Raymond O'Connell, David J. White, David J. Smith, Coburn Taylor, Edric R. Reed, George S. ATTENTION OF NEW MEMBERS Boynton, Arthur H. Trunkett, Frederick G. Mooers, Benjamin N. THURSDAY NIGHT DINNERS The Entertainment Committee wishes to again bring to the attention of the members the matter of the Thursday night dinners, which precede the entertainments on those evenings. Men who are known to be particularly interested in the subject under discussion are invited, but any member of the Club, who wishes, may secure tickets at the office of the Civic Secretary, to the capacity of the banquet room. Because invitations are sent on one occasion to one group of members, and on another occasion to another group, does not signify that all members are not welcome. All entertainment functions are always open to all members, in order of application. The dinners are held at six o'clock, and the price is one dollar, to be charged to the accounts of the members attending, it being quite evident that no one member should be the guest of the other members of the Club on general principles. The after-dinner speeches are most interesting and educational features of the Club life, which is evidenced by the eagerness to attend on the part of a large number of the Club members. RECIPROCAL RELATIONS The Boston City Club has reciprocal relations with the following clubs: Albany Club, Albany, N. Y. Arkwright Club, 320 Broadway, New York City. Business Men's Club, Richmond, Va. City Club, Baltimore, Maryland. City Club, Chicago, Ill. City Club, Hartford, Conn. City Club, Milwaukee, Wis. City Club, St. John's, Newfoundland. Commercial Club, Chattanooga, Tenn. Ellicott Club, Buffalo, N. Y. Moline Commercial Club, Moline, Ill. Underwriters' Club, 18 Liberty Street, New York City. AMATEUR BOSTON PIN LEAGUE The Schedule Committee of the Amateur Boston Pin League has completed its labors and all arrangements have been made for a series lasting twenty-one weeks. There are eight teams in the lineup, the new ones being Cottage Park Y. C. and the Boston City Club. The alleys at the latter Club will not be ready for some time, and the matches scheduled for the City Club will be bowled on alleys of other clubs. Dr. E. E. House, of Colonial Club, was elected President; John J. Heys, of Oxford Club, Vice-President; E. Kent Thayer, of the B. A. A., Treasurer; and O. C. Moseley, of Dudley Club, is back on the secretarial job. The schedule is as follows: A. January 4 Dudley at W. Y. C.; City at A. B. C.; C. P. Y. C. at Colonial. January 5-Oxford at B. A. A. January 11-Colonial at Dudley; B. A. A. at A. B. C.; City at W. Y. C. January 12 — C. P. Y. C. at Oxford. January 18- Dudley at C. P. Y. Č. ; B. Å. A. at City; A. B. C. at Colonial. January 19-W. Y. C. at Oxford. January 25— W. Y. C. at A. B. C.; Dudley at B. A. A.; C. P. Y. C. at City. January 26- Oxford at Colonial. February 1 City at Dudley; B. A. A. at C. P. Y. W. Y. C. February 2-A. B. C. at Oxford. February Dudley; Colonial at B. A. A.; W. Y. C. at C. P. Y. C. Oxford at City. February 15—C. P. Y. C. at A. B. C.; B. A. A. at W. Y. C.; City at Colonial. February 16- Dudley at Oxford. February 23 - Colonial at C. P. Y. C.; W. Y. C. at Dudley; B. A. A. at Oxford; A. B. C. at City. March 1 Dudley at Colonial; A. B. C. at B. A. A.; W. Y. C. at City. March 2- Oxford at C. P. Y. C. March 8-City at B. A. A.; Colonial at A. B. C.; C. P. Y. C. at Dudley; Oxford at W. Y. C. March 15 City at C. P. Y. C.; A. B. C. at W. Y. C.; B. A. A. at March 22 Dudley. March 16- Colonial at Oxford. Oxford at A. B. C.; W. Y. C. at Colonial; C. P. Y. C. at B. A. A.; Dudley at City. Partial List of Events occurring in the Club House during the Month of December DECEMBER 2 Presi Regular meeting of the United Improvement Association. DECEMBER 3 Monthly meeting of the Franklin Typographical Society. The anniversary committee reported that the annual banquet would be held in the Boston City Club on Monday evening, January 18, and that the Boston Typothetæ Board of Trade would join in the celebration. At the close of the business meeting, Charles W. Brown gave a short talk on "Making Good." DECEMBER 3 Dinner in honor of "Chinese" Brockman, General Secretary of Y. M. C. A. work in China for the past seventeen years. He declared that China's Government under the present régime is more stable than at any time in the past fifty years, that the present head has unified all factions in a very progressive administration, and has the confidence of all parties. Mr. Brockman also declared that opportunities for business in the far East were far greater than in South America or in any other country. He is in this country to raise funds to push the work of establishing a central Y. M. C. A on the American plan in each of the twenty-five capital cities in China. DECEMBER 5 Dinner of the Boston Clark Club, composed of graduates of Clark College and Clark University, Worcester. Secretary A. P. Pratt presided. DECEMBER 8 Dinner of the Alexander Hamilton Club. Charles E. Murnan, of the United Drug Company, and J. Machol, of the National Cash Register Company, discussed business subjects. President L. B. Tewksbury introduced H. E. Stone as Chairman of the meeting. DECEMBER 8 Dinner and meeting of the St. Croix Valley Association. President DECEMBER 8 Dinner by Grand Regent Edgar Searing, of Stockbridge, to the newly appointed supervisory deputy grand regents, at which fifty officers of the Royal Arcanum were present. Among the speakers were David F. Dillon, and Edward J. Byron. The Grand Regent was toastmaster. DECEMBER 9 Dinner of the Yale Club of Boston. William Lyman Underwood gave an illustrated lecture on "Hunting with Canoe and Camera." Benjamin H. Anthony, '86, Editor of the New Bedford Standard, a Vice-President of the Club, presided. There were 120 present. DECEMBER II Dinner of the local branch of the National Fire Protection Association. The principal speaker was Robert Adamson, Fire Commissioner of New York City. The speaker was introduced to the members of the Association by Adjutant-General Charles H. Cole, who presided. He introduced Mr. Adamson by saying that he was one of the best informed men in the country on fire fighting and fire prevention methods. Mr. Adamson declared that the promiscuous issuance of fire insurance policies is in a large measure responsible for the many incendiary fires in the vast majority of American cities, and the companies must be brought by public opinion or legislation to recognize their moral responsibility. At the conclusion of Mr. Adamson's address, Fire Prevention Commissioner O'Keefe delivered a brief address, saying that he had been assured that in answer to his urgent appeals, two teachers would be appointed by the State to teach fire prevention and safety methods to Boston school children. DECEMBER II Annual banquet of the Eastern Association of Physics Teachers. W. H. Timble, of the Wentworth Institute, President of the Association, presided, and about fifty college and high school teachers were present. The present examinations were defended by Prof. Frank A. Waterman, Smith College, Chairman of the College en |