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...Bursar's office before 1 o'clock today. Juniors who are now occupying College rooms and who intend to apply for rooms in Senior dormitories, and also men now rooming in Thayer Hall, who may relinquish their rooms in favor of next year's Seniors, will be allowed to defer their reengagement until next Wednesday...
...rooms in the middle and north entries of Thayer Hall will be delayed until next Tuesday, when all applications are due. Applicants for these rooms who are now occupying rooms in College dormitories, which they would re-engage if unsuccessful in the Thayer allotment, will be allowed to defer their decision until next Wednesday, when the result of the drawing will be known. This exception is exclusively for the benefit of Juniors who have applied for rooms in Senior dormitories and for men now rooming in Thayer Hall who may relinquish their rooms in favor of Senior applicants...
...retiring from the presidency of Harvard in order to relieve himself of responsible duties and that, although the honor conferred by such a position might be great, he was not disposed to undertake new responsibilities which might not be agreeable to him. Although President Eliot was urged to defer the refusal of the post until he had taken it into further consideration, he thought it better to come to a definite decision immediately...
...question of an overflow meeting on Commencement Day was referred to a committee, and it was voted to defer action on the subject of the order of Commencement exercises...
...wait for a large gift which shall found the infirmary as a memorial, or to depend upon an allotment from funds which may be devised for charitable purposes, is to defer the accomplishment indefinitely, and would deprive the infirmary of the general and sustained interest in its helpful work which would accrue from a large number of contributors. It is earnestly to be hoped therefore that both individual and concerted action may be taken by students and graduates to procure the sum, estimated at $50,000, necessary to build, equip and partially endow the Harvard Infirmary...