Word: answered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been frequently asked: What is there for the members of the Harvard Civil Service Reform Club to do? and some difficulty has been found in giving a satisfactory answer. I should like, however, through your columns, to outline a work in which any member of the club, or any person who is not a member, can assist the work of Civil Service Reform. Many of the books which are read in various lines of work, notably in the courses in History, contain valuable references to the conduct of the Civil Service in this and other countries. Now, there...
...letter has been received by the officers of the Athletic Association from George W. Orton of the University of Pennsylvania asking Harvard to enter an intercollegiate cross-country race on Thanksgiving Day with Pennsylvania, Yale, Cornell and Princeton. No answer has as yet been made to the proposition, but on account of the lateness of the season and the fact that Mr. Lathrop is busy with the football men it is hardly probable that the invitation will be accepted for this year...
Every student of the University, whether a member of the Christian Association or not, is earnestly urged to enlist in this or any other work of the association. Names may be sent to E. von Mark, chairman, at 18 Bowdoin St., Cambridge. He will also be glad to answer any questions...
...Thursday, are in No. 2 University Hall, on the first floor. From nine in the morning until four in the afternoon members and representatives of the committee will be in attendance to distribute circulars, elective and departmental pamphlets, maps of Cambridge, lists of rooms and boarding-houses, and to answer inquiries regarding whereabouts of officers of instruction and government, buildings, streets...
...strikes us as remarkably high. The question at once arises how this compares with the average expenses at Harvard. To this question, no satisfactory answer can be secured, but some significant facts are available. An examination of the reports of the class secretaries of former years shows that the number of men who spent less than a thousand a year is nearly twice as large as the number who spent more than that amount, and that the number who spent over two thousand is small. President Eliot, moreover, says that in his judgment there...