MANY PROMINENT MEN WILL SPEAK AT UNION IN 1920-21 SEASON

In order to add to the Union Library a representative collection of modern French and other foreign literature, Professor Roy K. Hack of the Department of the Classics, is to make a trip abroad this summer and in behalf of the Library Committee purchase a number of foreign works of fiction and books on other subjects. With the present exchange rate, it is expected that the library will be one of the most complete of its kind in this country in that field.

According to plans discussed and formed for the activities of the Union for the coming year at a recent meeting of the Governing Board and the Undergraduate Committee, the series of lectures by prominent men of the country will be even more extensive than for this last season. Among the well-known authorities on their various subjects, who, it is hoped, will speak at the Union during the fall are the Hon, Mark Sheldon, Australian Commissioner to the United States, Booth Tarkington, the noted novelist, and Percy D. Haughton '99, former University football coach.

On account of the steady advances in the cost of operation during the past year, it was voted at the meetings of the Governing Board and of the Undergraduate Committee to raise the annual membership fee from the present rate of $5.00 to $7.50. During the academic year 1921-1922 it is planned to make another increase, to $10.00. However, members who join next year at the $7.50 rate will be required to pay only that sum throughout their college course, regardless of later increases in the membership fee.

Facilities to be Increased During Summer

The high cost of food will also necessitate an increase in the charges for board at the Union restaurant, but the management intends to improve correspondingly the quality of meals served. It is planned to do as much catering as possible to undergraduate organizations, for dinners and banquets, and for this purpose additional equipment, silverware, china and dinner furnishings will be purchased during the summer if the funds can be obtained.

Special attention will be directed to suitable entertainment of visiting athletic teams and other groups, and to prominent men when they come to the University to speak before the students when in Cambridge or on other occasions. Also the Union will be an informal meeting ground for Faculty and students. In response to the extensive growth of small discussion groups, special facilities are being arranged.