Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Widener early in the summer notified President Lowell that she would be glad to furnish a building for it; and later, when she realized the crying insufficiency of library accommodations at Cambridge, offered to provide for a building large enough to accommodate the entire University library and allow room for growth...
...account of numerous requests from university and college presidents and others to allow certain students, whose studies or other duties would prevent their attendance for the entire period, to attend the summer camp of instruction at Gettysburg for a shorter period than the full six weeks' course originally contemplated, it has been decided: has been written for the occasion by C. T. Ryder '06, which promises to be one of the most stirring features of the celebration. Also an old anthem will be sung which was used by the students in the eighteenth century for a celebration similar to this...
...tests of fitness for every kind of work, which disregard utterly the personal equation, are being disproved, modified, and abandoned all along the line. As regards testing fitness to do college work, we believe there is practical value in the suggestion of Professor Thorndike, that the colleges which now allow the College Entrance Board to examine applicants, entrust to it the power to credit schools on the basis of an examination of the actual success in college of candidates prepared and endorsed by that school...
Seniors! Terry and the Bored Administration have decided to allow cuts to all Seniors tomorrow. As a result of this, the schedule for Seniors will be. 6.00-7.00 A.M. Seniors wake up, get dressed in white hats and tin mugs (no bath necessary. The sad sea waves will do their duty) and breakfast. 7.00-7.35 Seniors march round the Yard to the tunes of the First Corps Cadet Band. Also have picture taken under the good old Elms of Harvard. 7.35. Special Cars leave Harvard square for Otis Wharf. 8.30. Hotel "Griswold" sails. (Water cure discovered useless for sea-sickness...
...Donovan sL., of Lawrence; secretary and treasurer, S. B. Hoar '15, of Concord. The members present at the meeting passed resolutions condemning the Democratic leaders of Massachusetts for their stand on the tariff. A vote of thanks was offered to those instrumental in pushing the recent movement to allow students to vote...