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OWING to the thoughtful and energetic efforts of the President to keep order in the Yard at whatever sacrifice of dignity, the few solitary residents during the last week have enjoyed the conversation of the cultivated and affable Port peeler on their very doorsteps...
...hope that the amount and character of the news contained in this issue of the Crimson will fully justify the delay attending it. The great mass of interesting news which accumulates during Commencement Week does not reach the majority of the students; furthermore, the press reports of the regatta are often, because of their omissions, untrustworthy, and to know Harvard's side of the story one has to wait until the first issue of the college papers in the fall. The publication of the news contained in this issue leaves the Crimson free to present for the first number...
...goodies are not wholly to blame for the wretched way in which they do their work. What kind of attention can we expect a woman will give to sweeping and dusting, who is paid only forty cents a week for the care of each room under her charge? The trouble lies in the parsimony of the financial managers, who prefer to employ the untidy, clumsy, unintelligent Irish at the rate of fourteen or eighteen dollars per month (in proportion to the number of rooms cleaned), than to secure, at slightly higher rates, neat, careful, and efficient workwomen...
...wages that makes the difference. In Thayer the servants earn $19.20 per month, in Beck they earn $26.00. Forty cents a week for each double room is the wages of the goodies. Seventy-five cents a week for each room is the rate of wages in Beck...
...urged that the person who has charge of the College domestics makes frequent visits to the rooms and inspects the work, but it can be said in reply that, although Mrs. Ames may be satisfied with the way work is done in College rooms at forty cents a week, the occupants are not satisfied, and they do not believe that neat, orderly, and intelligent servants can be hired at that price...