Word: big
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...billiard room has been converted into the "council room" and will be used also as a private dining room for class dinners. The only part of the new club house on which considerable work still remains to be done is the interior of the big dining hall fronting on 45th street, which is to be known as Harvard Hall, and which will be finished on the style of the old English college dining halls. The regular evening dinner, which has become an important institution in the life of the Harvard Club, even with the inadequate accommodations of the old club...
...membership of the Union is certainly much lower than it should be, and this can only point to one thing: namely, that there is not enough interest in the Union to draw people to it. There are many small interest but no one big event or interest which appeals to the College as a whole. Now why would not a Union dance supply this want? The Living Room is an ideal place to hold such an occasion, as the floor is good and there is plenty of room. The College could give the dance alone or each class could give...
...fault spoken of has been lack of continuity and building for the future as well as for the year, lack of responsibility, lack of breadth, lack of discipline and the failure to bring to the running of a big amateur sport the same systematization and common sense that would have been evident at once in any business in which the same men or body of men were engaged. This fault has not been in any one year. It has been almost annual...
...hearty support of these games that their right to the aid which the Committee is so amply able to give can be vindicated. This aid has now been almost entirely withdrawn, not for the sake of economy, but because the Committee has decided to support only the four "big" sports in the belief that they alone have earned by their popularity the right to receive financial support form the Committee funds. Among these sports, to be sure, rowing is not self-supporting, nor, I believe, is track; yet the Committee has refused to concede the injustice of giving...
...regular summer course in field geology in the Black Hills and Big Horn Mountains, conducted by Professor T. A. Jaggar '93 and Professor R. T. Jackson '84 will begin at Hot Springs, South Dakota, July 2. Students who intend to take this course should send their names, before June 18, to Professor Jaggar, Geological Museum, from whom a descriptive circular of the course may be obtained. This trip may be counted as a half-course for any of the degrees given under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...