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...case should seats be reserved after the lecture begins however. A plan, frequently tried with success, is to reserve a certain portion of the seats until five or ten minutes before the lecture begins...
...lectures in College buildings are intended primarily for Cambridge citizens, well and good. If they are intended primarily for students, the CRIMSON again urges that the lecturers reserve a certain number of seats for students or make some arrangements by which they may not have to stand...
...some private hospital than be taken to the infirmary. These too would be subjected to an arbitrary charge. Another obvious objection is that there are many men who are never sick, to whom such a charge would be a most unwelcome mockery. Further it is pretty certain that there are those who would rather take their chances of being sick than pay $5.00 without a very tangible cause. Last, but not least, those who did go to the infirmary for any length of time would be getting more than they paid for, and many of them might be better able...
Would it not be an excellent plan to have a certain amount of seats reserved for students until five minutes before a lecture as is done at Appleton Chapel services...
...does seem unfortunate and unnecessary that students should be obliged to stand or be turned away at interesting lectures, intended principally for them, on account of the thronging in of Cambridge citizens unconnected with the University. If the suggestion made in the communication should be followed, that a certain number of seats at every important lecture should be reserved until five minutes before the lecture begins, many students would often be spared the disappointment of being turned away from crowded lectures or of being obliged to stand...