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When this campaign among the alumni according to classes finished, the Executice Committees of a number of classes asked to be allowed to continue the canvass with the object both of bettering the class average and of adding a few more thousand dollars in the belief that it may encourage others to join in raising the remaining $1,800,000 needed...
...thrown out of the game entirely, or at least to have the play made under conditions which would bring 22 men into action instead of only two offensive players, and a few half-hearted defenders clustered under the goal posts who knew they hadn't a chance in a thousand to block the kick...
Although Commons has kitchen and serving facilities for two thousand five hundred men, it can accommodate only fifteen hundred men in the dining hall at one time. Therefore, the overhead expense for operating the plant is so great that, unless at least one thousand men are eating there regularly, the operating cost exceeds the receipts...
...over, who need instruction in speaking, reading and writing English. Of these 118,000 are unable to write in any language and 215,000 are unable to read and write English. Ninety percent of these people are twenty-one years of age and over. Three hundred thousand men of voting age are unnaturalized...
Sixty members of the Glee Club will be taken on the Western Trip which is scheduled to start on Wednesday evening, December 22, when the men leave Boston and go to Cleveland to give the first concert of the tour on December 23. It has been reported that three thousand people will be present when the club sings in this city...