OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 1916-1917 JAMES J. STORROW, President ADDISON L. WINSHIP, Civic Secretary Board of Governors Executive Committee House Committee *Louis E. Kirstein †Frederick Homer Louis E. Cadieux Clarence W. McGuire W. E. Skillings * Chairman † Secretary BOSTON CITY CLUB FOR THE INFORMATION OF MEMBERS OF THE CLUB "This Club is founded in the spirit of good fellowship and every men This concert will mark the second appearance of this musical group in the Clubhouse, and there is no doubt that those members who were obliged to miss the concert last year will make certain to be present at the forthcoming one. Mr. Franklin P. Shumway, a member of the Boston City Club, is President of the Amphion Club. 171 Monday Evening, February 5 FORUM MEETING PROF. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D., Washington, D. C. "THE RIGHT AND WRONG OF THE LABOR UNIONS” Auditorium, 8 o'clock Thursday Evening, February 8 HENRY W. DUNN, Esq. (Former Dean of Law School, University of Iowa) "THE CONSTITUTION AND THE COURTS " HON. SAMUEL L. POWERS, presiding. Dinner at 6 o'clock. Tickets at the Civic Secretary's office. Probably no man in America is better qualified to speak in tribute to Abraham Lincoln, than Mr. Markham. In addition to his address, he will read his published and unpublished Lincoln poems. Thursday Evening, February 15 "THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT" Monday Evening, February 19 FORUM MEETING PROF. EDWARD A. STEINER, Grinnell, Ia. "IMMIGRATION " Auditorium, 8 o'clock Wednesday Evening, February 28 FREDERICK P. FISH, Esq. "INVENTION AND THE PATENT SYSTEM OF THE U. S. " ODIN ROBERTS, Esq., presiding. Dinner at 6 o'clock. Tickets at the Civic Secretary's office. ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENTS Thursday evening, March 1 GEN. GEORGE W. GOETHALS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PANAMA CANAL " Friday evening, March 30 SONS OF MEMBERS' NIGHT BOSTON CITY CLUB-SPECIAL MEETING The Board of Governors has recommended that Article III, Section 2, of the By-Laws be amended to read as follows: "Sect. 2. No person shall be allowed to serve as an elected member of the Board of Governors for more than three consecutive years, nor shall any person be allowed to serve in any one of the offices mentioned in Section 3, except that of Secretary, for more than the same period of time. When any such member or officer has served for this length of time, a period of two years must elapse before he shall be eligible for reëlection to the membership or the office aforesaid, as the case may be. When any member is absent from three consecutive meetings of the Board of Governors, without cause satisfactory to that Board, he shall be held to have resigned, and his place shall be treated as vacant." Accordingly, there will be a meeting of the Boston City Club in the Auditorium, Thursday evening, February 15, 1917, at 7.45 P.M., to consider this recommendation, and any other business which may properly be presented. JAMES J. STORROW, President. |