Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Owing to the reduced attendance at Memorial Hall on the American plan last year, the Managing Committee thought it expedient to organize the equipment and service this year in such a way as to accommodate satisfactorily 600 members without incurring a deficit. They believed that this could be done without loss by putting a certain portion of the plant out of commission. The enrollment of members has so far exceeded expectations that the Committee has decided to utilize the whole plant and to organize the service so as to accommodate 1200 members. As this change cannot be put into effect...
Other men who have consented to speak at later dates are Dr. J. M. Little '97, who is aiding Dr. Grenfell in his work for Labrador; Mr. G. O. Shields, president of the League of American Sportsmen; Mr. John Kendrick Bangs; Mr. J. M. Chapple, editor of the National Magazine; Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. A.; Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, and Professor Percival Lowell...
...lunch, 12 to 1.30; dinner, 5.30 to 7.30. Any member of the University may become a member of Memorial Hall by applying at the Auditor's office and showing that he has deposited the necessary security at the Bursar's office. Meals are served on the American plan at the guaranteed rate of $5.25 a week; and in addition a full extra-order list is maintained. As in the past, allowance is made for regular week-end absences...
Meals will be served on the American plan at the guaranteed rate of $5.25 a week; and in addition a full extra-order list will be maintained. As in the past, allowance will be made for regular weekend absences...
...Charles William Eliot, teacher, administrator, orator, prophet; forty years the leader and guide of Harvard, and in the single-minded elevation of his character a model to her sons; the father of the present American university, the brother of all teachers, and the friend of every lover of his country...