Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...October the number of boarders on the "fish and egg" system averaged 800. The average total cost of board to each of them was $5.96 per week. Granting, as those who ate it and even those who provided it will, that this was too high, how much of it shall we blame on the "transients"? The opponents of the latter system say eighty cents per week. We will take their figures. 800 men then paid 80 cents per week too much, total $640, to be divided among the guilty transients and borne by them. A week's board, 21 meals...
...seemed strange to some that the student body has not taken a more interested part in the discussion relating to a successor. Some would even have the undergraduates make public their choice and give the Corporation the benefit of their decision. The CRIMSON feels that there might well be more thought and discussion given to the matter by the undergraduates. It is a topic which has a vital bearing on them, not only while they are still in the University, but more particularly after they have graduated and are viewing the affairs of Harvard from the standpoint of an alumnus...
...teams, and the crew won last year was because they kept everlastingly at their work. The track team must defeat Yale this year to make up for the defeat of last year, and in order to do this every man must stay out for practice until the end, and even if a man feels that he cannot make the team, his work may encourage someone else...
Coach W. E. Quinn also said that the men must work hard and diligently, practicing at least five days a week in the field events. Men must not expect to do well after one month's practice or even after one year...
...recent elections and 317 voted for the officers while only 246 took the trouble to vote for the committees. This is approximately 51 per cent. for the first election and 39 per cent. for the second. These figures are unfortunately considerably lower than in most years, and lower even than the average for the past four years, while the present Senior class has been in College. During these years the classes have been of nearly the same size, 1909, however, being the largest by quite a margin. An average of these years shows a vote of 58 per cent...