Word: comings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...amount due has been paid in, and the total amount subscribed so far, $10,795, is much below the average. The report of the 1907 class Treasurer shows a total available fund of $15,039 received from 408 subscribers. It is plain that if 1908 is going to come up to the record set by last year's class a large sum will have to come in during the next few weeks, in the form of pledges from the many delinquents and prompt payments from the other members of the class. Seniors who have not subscribed should waste no time...
Twenty-three original drawings by F. G. Atwood '78, whose first work appeared in the Harvard Lampoon and whose later work has come out in Life, have recently been presented to the Union by J. T. Coolidge, Jr., '79. The sketches, which will be framed and hung in the Periodical Room, are chiefly of the two series "Manners and Customs of Ye Harvarde Students" and "Manners and Customs of Ye Bostonians...
There will be a mass meeting for the whole Freshman class in the Union this evening at 7.15 o'clock. Cheering will be practiced in preparation for the two Yale baseball games, which come at New Haven Saturday and at Cambridge next Wednesday, respectively...
...difficult to realize the rapid concentration in cities which has taken place since the Civil War. This is partly due to the great immigration--sixteen and one-half millions in the same period. With overcrowding, and the influx of a body of people unused to free government, has come a depreciation of the intelligence of the suffrage, still further lowered by the creation of a class of industrial operatives whose task of monoto- nously repeating one small operation requires but small intellect...
...result has come a great increase in expenditure. A majority of the voters in the cities today are not tax payers, indeed the same is true of the majority of office holders. More than two-thirds of the candidates at the last Cambridge election paid no taxes. Those who pay no taxes elect men like them selves, who will favor rockiness expenditure. The debt of cities in the United States is enormous. That of Boston increased in the last 12 years at four times the increase at the property valuation...