Word: availed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON ventures to offer a few. Why must the Union pay more than a thousand dollars each year in taxes? As part of the University could it not be exempted and this sum saved? Why is it possible for many men who have never joined the Union to avail themselves of its privileges? Why are the little boys, (employed ostensibly as pages) and the other uniformed persons so imposingly exanimate? Is their "service" worth $3,186.40 a year? Why can't the Union have Home Rule? By this suggestion the CRIMSON means that those most active and interested...
...permit me as a graduate and M.A. from Harvard to state a few facts about myself in connection with the European war? I am aware indeed that even the word of honor of the holder of five university and college degrees and author of ten volumes of history will avail little against the leaden mass of ignorance and prejudice that weighs down our country. Permit me to say that I am the completes American both by descent and by bringing up, and that when I first went to Germany in 1884, after a year of the then wretched instruction...
...evening. An excellent orchestra plays for the dancing and various professionals from the Castle House and elsewhere give occasional exhibitions. The floor is in excellent condition and the admission price of 25 cents is extremely low for an affair of this kind. It is hoped that undergraduates will avail themselves of the opportunity offered for enjoying themselves and at the same time adding to the Belgian Relief Fund. The Kermesse is open today from 2 in the afternoon until 10 o'clock tonight. The admission price is 50 cents...
...Boston Elevated Railway Company install in the Harvard square station a single file escalator of the cleat type from the platform for cars from Mount Auburn to the street level near and under the eastern side of the street shelter." Passengers from North Cambridge will also be able to avail themselves of this escalator by using a stairway of 16 steps. While this does not fully meet the necessities of the passengers it seems to be the best practicable solution of the problem...
...Salon Francaise de Boston, has very generously offered the hospitality of his society to the president and ten members of the Cercle for each meeting. Accordingly, every third week the Cercle will notify its members, through the CRIMSON, of this opportunity, and the first tten men to avail themselves of this privilege will secure the tickets. Professor Henri Lichtenberger, exchange professor from the Sorbonne, will be the guest of honor at the first of these meetings to be held Saturday afternoon at the Copley-Plaza at 3 o'clock. He will speak on "Ernest Renan et la pensee contemporaine...