Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There are eight notable evils of city government in this country today. First is an evil not peculiar to the city, but having a deeper effect there than elsewhere--the spoils system. In cities even the laborers and mechanics are employed in return for their vote. By padding the city payrolls additional places are found for friends of the administration. Competency is immaterial in appointments under the spoils system, so that there is an utter absence of it in the administration of the city departments. There is no discipline, because each member of a force owes his appointment to someone...
...writing and acting go, the Dramatic Club is amply able to do credit to the University; but how about the rest of the production? The great success of the Architectural Department play, in which no professional talent was used, even in the painting of the scenery, shows the possibilities of an "all-Harvard production." Would it not be possible next year for the Dramatic Club to co-operate with the artists, the musicians and all who can lend a hand, in producing a play that will eclipse all previous records and be Harvard's in every detail...
...Freshman baseball team will play Pomfret at Pomfret this afternoon at 3 o'clock. McKay will pitch for the Freshmen. Pomfret has been defeated generally this spring, while the Freshmen have been more successful, breaking even with Andover, and defeating Browne and Nichol's and Stone's School...
...English system of Intracollegiate athletics would not continue, or even exist, were it not that the best men of each college are continually sent up for a trial on the varsity. Their athletics would fail, in spite of the strong feeling between the colleges, were it not for these trials...
...short time ago in one of our large economic courses the prescribed reading consisted of over one hundred and ninety pages, distributed evenly between two books. The reading is hard, and he is an exceptional man who can finish it in less than four hours. In Gore and Harvard Halls combined there are four copies of each of the books; one hundred and fifty men take the course, each one of whom, if lucky, can secure the required book for one hour at a time. Gore Hall is open seventy hours each week; Harvard Hall is open forty-eight. What...