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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...editorials deal with the campaign for a new gymnasium, and with Memorial, urging in the case of the latter that an efficient professional caterer be found. As I look back on my own days at Memorial it seems to me there was an enormous waste; the waiters used to bring us vast quantities of roast beef, for instance, from which we could select the tid-bits which suited our palates. Such waste of course would not be tolerated in a hotel. Economy at Memorial is greatly to be desired; I should think the Corporation might accomplish a great deal...
...look at the Forest Service, which is handling a tract of country greater than all the Atlantic States put together. A long list of our greatest industries are dependent on the preservation of our forests. We use more wood than any other nation in the world. Many young men are needed to take hold of this question and a great opportunity is open to a man who wants his life to count for something. To enter forestry a man needs to be perfectly sound, capable of hard work, both with his hands and head, and needs a long training...
Some young Americans look upon great wealth as the goal of human endeavor, and look to law as the portal of this sublunar paradise, but if the young man has this idea when he studies law, as to his entering the profession, my only advice...
...said that among the many salubrities he had met, Mr. Ade was one of the best. Mr. Ade, just before starting for Egypt to look for some new American jokes, attended a dinner in honor of a certain Mr. Biff Hall, lately elected alderman, and was assigned to a seat beside him. At the close of the dinner a great loving-cup was passed around, each man giving an appropriate toast. When it got to Mr. Ade he rose and said "Hall, pull, graft, alderman...
Although the coaches are working their hardest to turn out a winning team, the chances do not look particularly bright just at present. About every day we are met with the news that another prominent track athlete has considered his responsibilities so lightly that he has gone on probation, and apparently there are very few suitable second string men. The men who are ineligible should be sure to get off probation in April, and the others should give the coaches a fair chance to develop them by going to practice every...