Word: boarders
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...October the number of boarders on the "fish and egg" system averaged 800. The average total cost of board to each of them was $5.96 per week. Granting, as those who ate it and even those who provided it will, that this was too high, how much of it shall we blame on the "transients"? The opponents of the latter system say eighty cents per week. We will take their figures. 800 men then paid 80 cents per week too much, total $640, to be divided among the guilty transients and borne by them. A week's board, 21 meals...
...However, it is to be hoped that either the present plan can be put on such a basis that it will approximate what was expected of it, or, that the Corporation will consider the matter again and evolve a scheme for Memorial which will be satisfactory both to the boarder and to the finances of the Association. Perhaps an entirely new proposition would be the most beneficial...
...that is honestly against us is on our part. Again there can be no compromise concerning truth. Yet there is a limit to freedom, even in a college. There is something to be said for the landlady who was accused of religious intolerance because she would not let her boarder sacrifice a bull to Jupiter in her front parlor. A college must not become merely a refuge for cranks. If a professor of Astronomy were now converted to a belief in the Ptolemaic system, he could hardly be permitted to teach it to a class of Freshmen...
...only such an account as should cast no reproach on the gentleman referred to, or on the University. Surely, when these facts are understood, no one can longer blame the Harvard representatives of the Boston newspapers for their action in the matter, or for the accounts they wrote. A BOARDER AT RANDALL HALL...
...appreciative audience. The play, a farce comedy, by Miss Marian D. Campbell, death with the complications arising from two rival missionary societies of a village church. The characters were accurately drawn and the dialect was natural. The cast was well selected, Miss Campbell, as Mrs. Du Bois, a summer boarder, and Miss Katherine Searle, as Mrs. Butterfield, the hostess, being particularly good. The performance, however, suffered slightly from over acting, a fault common to amateur theatricals. Miss Mabel W. Daniels sang between the two acts of the play...