Word: general
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...believe that cutting is no more necessary on Saturdays than on any other day of the week, and that engagements can be so arranged as to avoid the necessity of it. It is to the interest of the football team and of the student body in general that the request of the Student Council be complied with today...
...past year was the largest in the history of the Society, the total sales amounting to $316,310.46, an increase of about $12,000 over the business of the year preceding. It is to be borne in mind that this increase has taken place in a year of general business depression and in the face of a decreased enrollment in the undergraduate department of the University, the source from which the Co-operative draws its chief patronage. The Society's, membership made a slight gain, being. 2493 at the close of the fiscal year as, against 2479 a year...
...Cornell, Chicago, and California, the Harvard store is much the largest and most profitable among them. In fact, its vol- ume of annual business is about as large as that of all the others put together. Some idea of the service which the Cooperative renders to the University in general may be gained form the statement in the annual report that more than 60,000 volumes were sold during the year by its book department...
...Chapman's special plaint is that "the whole body of graduates is being organized in a Harvard service, to employ Harvard men, to advertise Harvard, to make converts, to raise money, to assist in a general Harvard forward movement." As specific instances of the depraved advertising methods to which our governing bodies have had recourse in their efforts to keep Harvard numerically in the lead, Mr. Chaplian cites the use of the University's name in connection with President Eliot's edition of the classics, the "Joan of Arc" performance in the Stadium, the honors which were paid to President...
Inasmuch as a subscription of this sort never includes all who might subscribe, while the music is for the enjoyment of all members of the Dining Association, the cost of the music could very properly be added to the general expenses of the Hall. The trouble of collecting many small amounts would thus be avoided, while the charges distributed in such a way would not add appreciably to the individual bills of members...