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...However, it is to be hoped that either the present plan can be put on such a basis that it will approximate what was expected of it, or, that the Corporation will consider the matter again and evolve a scheme for Memorial which will be satisfactory both to the boarder and to the finances of the Association. Perhaps an entirely new proposition would be the most beneficial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COST OF BOARD AT MEMORIAL. | 12/3/1908 | See Source »

...that is honestly against us is on our part. Again there can be no compromise concerning truth. Yet there is a limit to freedom, even in a college. There is something to be said for the landlady who was accused of religious intolerance because she would not let her boarder sacrifice a bull to Jupiter in her front parlor. A college must not become merely a refuge for cranks. If a professor of Astronomy were now converted to a belief in the Ptolemaic system, he could hardly be permitted to teach it to a class of Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISTINCTIONS CONFERRED. | 12/19/1901 | See Source »

...only such an account as should cast no reproach on the gentleman referred to, or on the University. Surely, when these facts are understood, no one can longer blame the Harvard representatives of the Boston newspapers for their action in the matter, or for the accounts they wrote. A BOARDER AT RANDALL HALL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 3/1/1901 | See Source »

...appreciative audience. The play, a farce comedy, by Miss Marian D. Campbell, death with the complications arising from two rival missionary societies of a village church. The characters were accurately drawn and the dialect was natural. The cast was well selected, Miss Campbell, as Mrs. Du Bois, a summer boarder, and Miss Katherine Searle, as Mrs. Butterfield, the hostess, being particularly good. The performance, however, suffered slightly from over acting, a fault common to amateur theatricals. Miss Mabel W. Daniels sang between the two acts of the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Club Theatricals. | 3/3/1900 | See Source »

...that the Corporation will do wrong if it leaves the students for whom Memorial has no place to be accommodated by private parties. Board equivalent to that in Memorial never could be obtained from private parties at the same price because, in the first place, the cost to each boarder in a small establishment must be greater than in a large establishment and, because, in the second place, an allowance must be made for profit. The two causes combined make the increase in price a very considerable item. Now to the student who must live on a comparatively small amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/11/1894 | See Source »

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