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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual dividend of the Harvard Co-operative Society is to be declared about a week before the Yale game. The dividend will be approximately 8 per cent., the same per cent. as last year, when it was the largest in the history of the Society. The annual meeting of the directors will be held in the course of a few weeks...
...Paul's Catholic Club has held fortnightly meetings at which prominent clergymen and laymen were invited to speak. The active membership shows an increase of 25 per cent. over that of last year. Though still in alliance with Phillips Brooks House Association the centre of the club's activities is now at its comparatively new house, 34 Mt. Auburn street. Here the club maintains its own assembly and reading rooms, its library of 500 volumes, and its game and pool rooms...
...seem good policy to keep a team on which much depends in a pleasing frame of mind by a little pampering now and then, but when a man who sees things from the inside makes the statement that a 33 per cent. reduction in expenditures is possible, some attempt should be made to act in accordance...
Among the stories, "Pete La Farge" by Mr. Ernst is notable as a triumph over limitations of space. Though but a trifle over three pages long, it lacks scarcely one of the properties which the current practice of our best ten-cent magazines proves helpful toward securing publication. Local color, uncouth dialect, primal passion, heroic resignation, a moral struggle, and a savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor...
...past years, and of still further increasing the importance of its position in the lives of its members. They must arrange for lectures and entertainments, and devise other means to make the club an indispensable part of University life. At the last election only a very small per cent. of the members voted. We hope that the number today will be exceptionally large, so that the new officers may start their year convinced of the members' confidence...