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After the main features of the Memorial Hall situation have been seen, the question comes: What is to be done? We believe that, when two opposing bodies meet both of which have the force of indisputable truths with them, both must be moved from their purposed courses. It is plain that, unless the University is to be removed from men who have not large means, the Corporation must do something; it is equally plain that unless the Corporation can have assurance that a second dining-hall will settle matters for a considerable term of years, this second dining-hall will...
...members of the Corporation further state that the business already carried on by them is tremendous, and that to furnish board to students is a complicated matter under the most favorable circumstances. Since therefore it is not plain on what basis the new hall could be organized, and since the question seems in reality to be not of a second hall but of a number of halls limited only by the growth of the University, the Corporation is inclined to stop where it is and let the problem be solved by recourse to private enterprise...
...more importance-and we are inclined to believe that none have been of as much importance-as the problem which is presented by the over-crowded condition of Memorial Hall. In what manner the increasing number of students is to secure good board at a moderate price is not plain; in fact, it looks today as if, after Memorial had reached its limit, no provision would be made by the University authorities for the students still unaccommodated...
...VARSITY GLEE, BANJO AND MANDOLIN CLUBS.- Concert tonight in Jamaica Plain. Leave Harvard Square by special electric car at 6.40 sharp. As the car has to be started on time, every man must be prompt. Ask the car-starter for special...
Immediately upon approaching the subject of scholarships, one stumbles across questions of practicability. Scholarships ought to be given to those students who most need money and who are likeliest to be useful in the active life of the world after graduation. This much is plain. But the question comes: is not college rank the only practicable test for determining distribution of scholarships...