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Laundry at a discount. Special arrangements must be made for collecting and returning linen by errand boy. White kid, street and Scotch wool gloves in stock. Bath towels, sponges, and a line of the best soaps...
...have noticed that such men, in most cases, get their scholarships under the special provision, when their records as scholars would not entitle them to the least consideration. Now, if a man in easy circumstances - such, I mean, as will afford him the ordinary necessary comforts and pleasures of college life - can have the "gall" to take pecuniary help under a special provision, when really needy classmates of his, who are head and shoulders above him in scholarship, will have to scrape and pinch, or possibly leave college for want of the money he spend on fine apartments or society...
What I would suggest is, that the assignments be made on a general list of all four classes ranked in together. Then an inferior man would no longer be screened by the inferiority of his classmates. Special assignments are, on the whole, unjust; every needy man in college can work hard enough to be entitled to aid, and because a man who won't work hard, happens to be the grandson of a member of an old class, or a distant relative of a founder of a fund, he is not by that any more worthy of help...
Laundry at a discount. Special arrangements must be made for collecting and returning linen by errand boy. White kid, street and Scotch wool gloves in stock. Bath towels, sponges, and a line of the best soaps...
...special meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools will be held on Friday afternoon and on Saturday morning, Jan. 7 and 8, 1887, in the Latin School building, Warren avenue. The Friday afternoon session will be open at 2 o'clock by a report on "the work of the commission of colleges in New England on admission examinations," presented by Professor William C. Poland of Brown University. Discussion will follow at 3 on the question, "Does the circular recently issued by Harvard University conduce to greater uniformity in requirements for admission to college?" Remarks will...