Word: even
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...would be impossible to maintain that Harvard is merely a rich man's college, if even the most cursory examination were given to the report of the University Employment Office, recently published by R. A. Derby, who is in charge. During the past year 956 men, or nearly one-quarter of the total enrollment of the University, made application at the Office for remunerative employment of some sort. In all, $136,849.77 was earned during the past year, of which about a half came from positions secured directly through the Office, while the other half was secured through members...
...tightly together, unventilated, dust-covered and filled with malodorous clothing. It does not seem too much to ask of the gymnasium authorities that the windows be opened and the galleries aired as much as possible, and that the lockers themselves be rearranged in order to secure adequate ventilation. Or even, if this last consummation be unattainable, they might be cleared out and cleaned at frequent intervals. Their present state is unwarrantable, and the Christmas recess furnishes an opportunity for correction...
...whose windows open towards that centre, shall be obliged to lie awake for the space of five minutes at 7 o'clock. The mode of life at the University has so changed in recent years that many students find no occasion, whatever for rising before 8 o'clock or even later. Why then should those who live within sound of this bell be subjected to this continual nuisance? The seven o'clock clang performs no conceivable useful function and only serves to add one unnecessary discomfort to the Yard dormitories...
...down to that tropical isthmus, have made it so healthy as to be almost a health resort, and have expended huge sums of money with vigilant economy as well as with singular efficiency in the actual work on the canal, and have done it so that there is not even a suspicion of a dollar having been taken by any of them. Very, very few private business concerns, no matter how well administered, can show such a high standard of probity and efficiency as has obtained among the men doing the work on the Panama Canal...
...favor and applaud declarations in favor of conservation. But as soon as men in actual practical work begin to apply the doctrine they meet with all kinds of difficulties; they are brought face to face with all kinds of selfish interests, and they are exposed also to the even greater danger of being honestly misunderstood by honest...