Word: board
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...effects of the editorial are likely to arise from a misunderstanding of the nature of the Harvard Dining Association. This, as its name implies, is not a corporation doing business as a cafe, but an association of students for the purpose of deriving the advantages of cooperation in obtaining board. It is not capitalized and does not own property. On the contrary, it is obliged to borrow money at interest to pay for its plant and the regular bills incurred. This money, instead of being borrowed from banks, is obtained from the Corporation of the University as a regular investment...
...purposes of the Association. What is needed is not the threat of repudiation of a bona fide debt by withdrawal, but rather an earnest attempt to insure a larger membership in order that the obligations of the Association may be more widely apportioned and the price of board for each individual be reduced to a more normal level than at present obtains...
...following 31 men handed in their names last night as candidates for positions on the editorial board of the CRIMSON...
Members of the classes of 1910 and 1911 wishing to try for positions on the editorial board of the CRIMSON are requested to meet in the office this evening promptly at 7 o'clock. A brief outline of the work will be presented at this meeting. Men especially well informed in any branch of University activity, and men of any journalistic or literary ability, are urged to come...
...enough men left who, under a more suitable system, would find Memorial Hall a very valuable adjunct to the University. The fact that they have not done so proves, not that the hall has become unnecessary, but that it has not satisfied the needs as it should. Price of board, quality of service, dislike of paying for meals never eaten, have all been partially responsible. Until the disadvantages are done away with, the hall will not draw as it should, and until it does become refilled, it cannot work at its best. It is a two-sided problem...