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Dates: during 1890-1899
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DEAR SIRS.- Allow me to call attention to one source of the disorder and inefficiency in the Co-operative which I have had in mind for some time and which seems to have escaped general notice. I refer to the fact that Mr. Waterman the superintendent when he went into business in Boston on his own account, took with him, drafting off into his own business, most of the best clerks and employees of the Co-operative, and turned most of the work of the Society over to new hands. No store or business house could stand that, you know...
...conclusion, Mr. Chaplin wished to emphasize the fact that the university is not a reformatory institution. The faculty refuses to hamper good men in order partially to control the very small percentage of bad men. In so large an institution as Harvard the government has no time to attempt the reformation of individual bad students. If a man is unworthy of Harvard, the only course open to the faculty is to force him to leave college...
Notices have been posted calling a meeting of the Co-operative Society tomorrow evening in Sever hall. In view of the fact that "if the members so vote, the meeting will be in place of the annual meeting in March," the occasion will be of unusual importance. Yet the evening chosen is the date of the Symphony concert, of the semi annual meeting of the Harvard Union, and of several smaller meetings. Worse than this, the Co-operative Society has engaged the same hall as the Harvard Union, and must therefore adjourn before half-past seven, when the latter society...
There seems to be a very general impression abroad that there is something radically wrong with athletics here at Harvard. As a matter of fact there is nothing the matter with athletics here. Radical changes in all departments have characterized the history of the university in recent years. These changes brought about a crisis in our athletics, and gave them a decided set-back; but it was a needed set-back, one which served to eradicate many of the serious faults of the old athletic system. From it athletics started forward under an essentially new system, and the many defeats...