Word: comee
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...number of communications and editorials upon that subject were printed, and although there was a pretty general agreement that the present system of choosing managers is not satisfactory, there seemed to be no consensus of opinion as to a remedy. Since that discussion, however, a new organization has come into existence, the Student Council, and it seems proper to open the discussion again, this time with more hope of a speedy solution of the question...
...subject which will come up for discussion is the report of a committee appointed by the Economic Club to study the condition of the city government of Boston and investigate the feasibility of instituting a government by commission. The report alleges that entrusting such large powers to one man as has been the case with the mayor of Boston, has not proved wise and expedient in practice, and recommends that the executive branch of the city government be vested in a council of five persons. President Eliot is a member of the committee chosen and will be the first speaker...
...listed 433 books printed before 1500, the work of 160 different printers. This addition more than doubles the former collection of such books, and probably gives the College Library the largest number of these early works of any public library in the country. Next to the classics in numbers come the works of the mediaeval Latin writers. There are also many standard works in French and English, as well as numerous curious and rare volumes...
...occasion and gain victory from a Harvard team whose progress has been consistent, steady and rightly timed to meet occasions as they appeared? Who can tell whether Yale strategic ability, the result of long and constant application, can cope with Harvard's newly applied organization of football intelligence and come out the victor...
Turning to the group of "artificial" material, we come first to Mr. Carb's "Miss Alice Comes Out." It is unfortunate that here the writer has allowed cleverness to take the place of common sense; the lovers discuss idealism with an ingenuity that is hopelessly literary. Mr. Britten discusses the charm of the sea, his point apparently being that such discussion is entirely profitless to anyone. Mr. Sheehan, in a sort of religious monodrama of three pages, sets forth cleverly the shortcomings of the monastic life. The rest of the verse is of the usual undergraduate variety; for the most...