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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American Economic Association offers two prizes: a first of $1,000 and a second of $500, for the most meritorious papers on the subject of "What Can a Man Afford to Give?". The donor of the prizes, Mr. E. A. Karelsen, believes that a general discussion of the rational basis of contributions for altruistic purposes will do great good, and hopes that competition for the prizes may be nation-wide. Any American citizen is eligible to compete. The essays are to be submitted in typewritten form on or before October 1, 1920, to the secretary of the American Economic Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prizes Offered for Economic Essays | 12/12/1919 | See Source »

...Unquestionably the dormitory is the best solution of the college housing problem but it must win its way gradually into the approval of the student body. Build your dormitories so attractive that men can ill afford to live elsewhere and you need worry no longer as to the necessity for compulsion. As your Freshmen would rather live in the dormitories than outside of them so would your upperclassmen find their dormitories so rich in opportunity that they would not risk losing what they might thus gain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. LEACOCK ASTOUNDED BY FRESHMAN DORMITORIES | 12/1/1919 | See Source »

...other leading parts of those of Peer, an omniscient deacon, whose pretensions to learning afford comic opportunities; Jeppe, the father of Erasmus, whose paternal pride adds a sympathetic touch to the play; Nille, an old peasant woman; and Jacob, a country bumpkin. They are played by V. P. Williamson Unc., D. T. Eaton Unc., Miss Tripp of Radcliffe, and R. H. L. Skinner '22, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PLAYS IN PI ETA THEATRE DECEMBER 9TH | 11/14/1919 | See Source »

...number present had no bearing on the games, but the respective results in the score seem due to more than coincidence. A vivid example of the power of "pep" is the result of the Yale-Boston College game last Saturday. Men of the latter institution, who could not afford to go by train, walked part of the way and "bummed" the rest to New Haven. Boston College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON. | 10/23/1919 | See Source »

...elect officers for the coming year, the Spanish Club will hold a meeting in Phillips Brooks House at 3.30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The club was formed last year to afford a centre for Spanish-speaking students to meet and discuss subjects of current interest. The meetings are conducted in Spanish, and all students and Alumni of the University are eligible for membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spanish Club to Meet Tomorrow | 10/4/1919 | See Source »

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