Word: comeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will come as a relief to many men to know that they will still be allowed to make up groups when applying for rooms in the Houses. True the Masters hope to keep the groups as small as possible and strongly oppose any, plan which would make up an entire entry of intimate friends, but they have excellent ground for doing so. Since the occupancy of the rooms is to extend over a period of three years, there would be a tendency for certain entries to take on the color of exclusive clubs. Such a tendency would smack dangerously...
Next week he decides not to go in to Boston or accept any invitations to dinner or lunch and religiously eats five lunches and five dinners at the House and only four breakfasts. We find him on Friday night very pleased with himself for having come within thirty cents of breaking even, for be staying home nights he has been able to increase the total value of his meals to $8.20. Evidently he is on the right track so he decides to do this one better and stay home Saturday night too. This is rather a bore because...
...them self supporting on a per meal basis, the whole idea of University dining halls should be done away with, unless the University is willing to continue the practice of subsidy on the ground that House Dining Halls are a good thing. In any case the subsidy should not come from those who do not think University dining Halls are a good thing as is the case with the twenty-five percent of absentees at the Freshman dormitories or the hypothetical group of House residents who will not eat their entire allotment of fourteen meals...
...House Plan is for the first time put on a definite basis. Questions for a long time unformulated and floating about in the minds of Harvard men are for the first time answered. Some idea of the physical form which the Houses will take for the first time come to the public notice in the pictures released from University Hall...
...Vagabond primly believes that there are at least a few souls who perhaps struck last Saturday at just the right angle to come bounding back into the field of academic charms. Towards those men, towards those men who find themselves filled with a tremendous enthusiasm for accomplishment during the next few weeks, the Vagabond respectfully offers his encouragement and suggests the following lectures...