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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...store is much the largest and most profitable among them. In fact, its vol- ume of annual business is about as large as that of all the others put together. Some idea of the service which the Cooperative renders to the University in general may be gained form the statement in the annual report that more than 60,000 volumes were sold during the year by its book department...
...seem good policy to keep a team on which much depends in a pleasing frame of mind by a little pampering now and then, but when a man who sees things from the inside makes the statement that a 33 per cent. reduction in expenditures is possible, some attempt should be made to act in accordance...
...mildly inquiring eye of the policeman on your beat. The so-called honor system which Mr. Macgowan advocates has, so far as I can see no real and certain advantages. The fact that under it the student is required to write at the end of his blue-book the statement that he has neither given nor received assistance, would make it, to those hypersensitive should who feel humiliated by proctors, equally offensive. As Mr. Macgowan himself admits, it has not wholly eliminated cheating in those institutions which have tried it. Whatever fancied advantages it may possess seem to me more...
...been said by members of former graduating classes that the Senior picnic was one of the most enjoyable features of the life of the class. We cannot vouch for the truth of this statement, but it would seem that this occasion, if participated in by the majority of the Seniors, could be made vastly entertaining. It is the one time of a college career that a class ventures en masse to the sea-shore to disport itself to the best of its ability for a whole day. Let not the occasion be made a failure by the absence...
...meeting held in the Assembly Room of the Union last night for the purpose of forming a wrestling association was attended by about 25 undergraduates. Mr. Garcelon opened the meeting with a brief statement of the aims and objects of the association, and was followed by Dr. Sargent and P. Withington '09, who made brief speeches on the benefits of wrestling for other sports and for its own sake...