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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Western Reserve University writes on "President Eliot's Message," giving a cordial appreciation of the character and work of the President. President Hyde of Bowdoin has an excellent review of Mr. Eliot's recent volume on "University Administration." Mr. W.R. Thayer writes on "Comparisons: 1869-1909," showing in concrete form a few of the great changes under President Eliot's administration. His list of the buildings added is a sad one; by no stretch of the imagination can many of these be called beautiful. He demonstrates clearly that Harvard is the poor man's college and so the democratic college...
Tickets for the Freshman dinner, to be held at the American House on March 27, will be an sale at the Rendezvous daily form 10 to 12 and from 2.30 to 5 o'clock. The price of tickets is $2, with an additional charge of $1 to provide for a bend. Should the breakage by more than $30, the bend will be forfeited; otherwise, the individual pledges will be returned...
...returned out to be of great importance. The reason for this is that the Senate can amend bills of this nature, providing only that the article is not changed; or, as it has been aptly said, "the House has the power to touch the button and watch the Senate form a tariff bill...
...consider the problem of improving the efficiency of both halls, the quality of food, and the service. After informing themselves as thoroughly as possible concerning present conditions, and setting on foot such plans for improvement as may be thought wise, the committee will recommend to the Corporation a new form of permanent representative organization, under which, it will be hoped, some of the present difficulties may be avoided...
...Union can probably do no greater service to its members than it plans to do by offering each year a course of lectures or conferences for the guidance of men who are trying to choose a profession. Such men are likely to form superficial or conventional conceptions of what the different professions are and what qualities they require, and to decide in favor of one or against another on very insufficient evidence. Thus a man who shows a talent for debate thinks he is cut out for a lawyer, and one who has a moderate amount of mechanical ingenuity thinks...