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...board of directors of the Co-operative Society, three important measures wero decided on, which it is the desire of the board to present to the college, with some of the reasons that led to their adoption. The first two involve a change in the constitution, and the action of the directors will have to be approved at the annual meeting in February. The third is a measure of expediency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY. | 11/23/1883 | See Source »

...disagreeable position, as it is now probably too late to arrange a game with another team. The pecuniary loss to our association will probably amount to some hundreds of dollars, as the management expected a good attendance at this, the only championship game to be played in Cambridge. This action on the part of Columbia, together with her refusal to play the Princeton game, will probably result in her expulsion from the association. With the best of feelings toward Columbia, it would be impossible for the association to retain a member whose engagements are made on so unreliable a basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/22/1883 | See Source »

...should be the principal meal, and he recommends lunch in the middle of the day and dinner at night. "Breakfast," he says, "should always include oatmeal, mush, cracked wheat, or some similar article, with plenty of meat.' Then come some remarks on the necessity for "regularity in the action of the bowels" with advice in case of disorder in those organs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEALTH NOTES FOR STUDENTS. | 11/21/1883 | See Source »

...tellers, whose names will be published before the meeting. The committee desires to state to the class that no societies or other organizations have held caucuses or made up tickets, and that the delegates have given their pledge, as representing the three sections of the class, that no such action shall be taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHTY-FOUR. | 11/12/1883 | See Source »

...writer, the rule seems inexpedient and unjust. It was undoubtedly made to prevent any chance of the meetings becoming inconveniently Jong. The '83 committee of arrangement proposed a similar rule, but by motion in the meeting the rule was thrown out. Subsequent events justified the action of the meeting. The secretary eventually elected would have been thrown out at the first had the meeting not amended the rules. Later in the evening the orator finally receiving the majority of votes would have been rejected by such a rule as the '84 committee propose. To prove that freedom of ballot need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DROPPING-OUT RULE. | 11/12/1883 | See Source »