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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...join them and sever their connections with them as they wish. A member is under no obligation to them, save that of paying his monthly dues, which range from one to three francs. The money thus collected is deposited in state banks and forms a permanent and ever increasing fund, designated for the use of needy members of the societies. It is an admirable fact that poor workmen are willing to give their share towards these funds, part of which, at least, they know will be used by laborers of future generations less fortunate than themselves...
...class rowing which begins today is of more importance than ever before. The best oarsmen in College will row on their class crews, but in spite of this great pains will be taken with...
...speech delivered in Sanders Theatre by Francis Cabot Lowell, and an essay on "Stephen Phillips and His Work," by O. J. Campbell, are the only articles worth careful reading. "A Winter Ode," by H. W. Holmes, has no little beauty of description. But the Monthly has seldom--if ever--given twenty pages of space to a weaker effort than "The Tower of Silence; a Play," or published a poem more out-of-place than the doggerel verses, "On a Certain Retaining Wall...
...Union the Dean says: "To persons interested in the social life of students, the most important gift of the academic year, and one of the most important ever received by the University, is the building for the new Harvard Union. . . The mere size of the University has made it impossible for all students to belong to any one society or club; and the older societies and clubs, though their influence has steadily improved, are sometimes believed to promote the formation of cliques. At best, they cannot be thoroughly democratic. The Harvard Union is a club to which every member...
...policy was so bitterly denounced that it had finally to be abandoned. The policy of extermination, however, whether the result of deliberation or indifference, has been continued. The mortality in the British concentration camps during the last seven months according to official British reports outclasses anything of the sort ever reported in Cuba. During three months more than 15,000 of the women and children so confined have succumbed. This means a death rate of over 2 per cent per month,--or over 25 per cent per year. In other words, the present policy if maintained would obliterate the entire...