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...would suggest, therefore, that at least two, and possibly three, trials be held. At first, the system would be much the same as now, with the exception that the candidates hand in their names previously and if their number exceed twenty by as much as ten that then the men be divided into two groups to compete on different evenings. From these men the ten or fifteen best speakers should be chosen. These men might be asked to enter a second competition where they would be expected to show their skill in rebuttal. At this trial the number of candidates...
...Sophomore dinner will be held at the Hotel Vendome, corner of Commonwealth avenue and Dartmouth street, on Tuesday, May 4, at 7 p. m. The price of the dinner will not exceed $2.25 a plate. No dress suits will be will be worn. Blue-books have been placed at the entrance to Memorial and in Leavitt's, and all members of the class are urged to sign them at once in order that definite arrangements may be made. Tickets will only be given to those men who have signed the blue-books. This is the first Sophomore dinner that...
...hoped that all those '98 men who have not yet signed the blue-book at Leavitt and Peirce's will do so at once. At present there some four hundred or so men in the class and it is earnestly desired that the number at the dinner shall exceed 300. The blue-book will be left in Leavitt and Peirce's until next Monday night and everyone who intends to attend the dinner must obtain his ticket there on before that date...
...steward is engaged by the president and board of directors. He receives a certain yearly salary and, in addition, a system of "head money," consisting of a bonus of ten cents a week per man, provided the price of board does not exceed $4.00 a week. Thus it is evident that it is to the steward's interest to keep the price of board at exactly $4.00. But it should further be noticed that there is a waiting list of over 600 for the hall, that the places of those who leave the hall on account of poor fare will...
...regulating absences from lectures, or "cuts," followed at Harvard, with the plans in force at other colleges is a source of much satisfaction to Harvard students. At some colleges no absences are allowed without excuse. At others a small fixed number of "cuts" is allowed which no student can exceed except for severe sickness. Other institutions have still different plans. At Yale, for instance, a "new system of cuts" has been tried in the freshman class and will probably be adopted for all classes in the future. According to this system no absence of longer than a week is allowed...