Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...date improvements, installed in the College buildings in or about the Yard, are welcomed by the undergraduates as a move in the direction of making our time-honored buildings as livable as their modern rivals, even if the alternations are put in entirely as a business proposition. Such additions all help toward making the dormitories what we hope sometime to see them-a center of University activity that will be sought by all the undergraduates, because they are fully as convenient as the modern houses and possess the added attraction of historic association. When that time comes it will...
What Harvard undergraduates need today as much as anything else is a centralized system of advisers; preferably young men in the Faculty, or even members of the graduate schools, who are familiar with Harvard life and capable of judging of the needs and possibilities of the men assigned to their care. To be most efficient the board should be large enough to give one adviser not more than ten Freshmen each year...
...should the Sophomores, or even the Juniors, be permitted to drift away from their advisers altogether. The older a man becomes, the better able he is to choose for himself; but only by keeping in touch with all can the adviser hope to distinguish between the careless and judicious. To the latter every consideration should be shown; but the former should be taught to think for himself, and if that is impossible, should be compelled to make the most of his opportunities...
...lockers are crowded into unventilated galleries, where the windows are unopened and unopenable. Where athletic clothes are piled after each day's exercise, there is no attempt at fumigation, or even thorough cleaning, and the dust of months is allowed to accumulate. In the Gymnasium proper, in the looker rooms, in the baths, the air is foul. Small wonder that we learn of cases of eczema among the men who use the lockers...
Thirdly, the Corporation advances money needed for permanent fixtures and equipment, charging a rate of interest below the current income of its general investments, and distributing the sinking-fund payments over so large a number of years that, according to actual experience, they do not even keep pace with depreciation. In other words, the Corporation lends money to the Dining Association on a wasting or vanishing security. Moreover, with the plant in good condition, the income of the investment, to say nothing of the principal, is wholly dependent on the steady running of the Hall...