Word: timely
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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During the past, the CRIMSON has printed editorials on the question of time allowances granted at the Christmas vacation to students who live at a distance. From the amount of comment, the system in vogue is at present provoking, and another editorial on the same subject is apparently timely. Students who live in the West are permitted to leave early enough to arrive at their homes at the opening of vacation. However, they are required to register after the recess at the regular time. For many this necessitates leaving home on New Year...
...CRIMSON believes that granting Western men a full vacation at Christmas time would remove a constant source of irritation and a strong grievance which Western men at college now feel. This would indirectly, but none the less surely, tend to still further increase the number of Western students. This reason in itself should convince the Faculty of the wisdom of granting students whose homes are at a distance, a vacation as long as Easterners...
...Back of all this was corruption in business. Business was corrupting politics and not politics business. I found more grafting in business than I ever found in any city. About this time came the disclosures of grafting in the insurance companies. The policy holders in the companies are the citizens, who are supposed to elect officers and directors. Investigation showed that the directors were organized in combines which elected committees, and these committees interlocked, thus making a ring around the officers. When the ward heelers obtained policies from the people, they got proxies which went back to the officers...
...following 14 members of the University second football team have been awarded the H2nd for the first time: R. M. Allen '11, of Bonita, Cal.; W. J. Blake '13, of Fall River; C. L. Callander uC., of Fargo, N. D.; S. W. Chaffee '13, of Brookline; J. M. Eager uC., of Portland, Me.; R. W. Eckfeldt '13, of Concord; J. E. Foristall '13, of East Boston; J. G. French '12, of Philadelphia, Pa.; T. C. Hardwick '13, of Quincy; T. A. Jenckes, Jr., '13, of Providence, R. I.; D. Lawson '13, of Boston; E. A. Lingard '13, of Boston...
...University hockey squad will practice four times a week in the Boston Arena under Coach A. Winsor '02. When the ground freezes, the two hockey rinks in the Stadium will be flooded, and at that time the Freshman candidates will be called out. F. W. Paul '11 has been appointed coach of the Freshman team. Immediately after the Christmas recess the scrub hockey teams will be organized and soon afterward upper-class captains will be appointed. The games of the scrub series will be watched and men who do especially good work will be taken on the University squad...