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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to obviate any arbitrary action on the part of the committee, at least 20 choices must be specified. Groups will be considered in the order of their size, groups of 12, which are the largest allowed, receiving first consideration. Among groups of equal size those applying for fewer rooms will have the preference over those applying for more. In Hollis and Stoughton three or four men may apply for two rooms, that is a group of 12 men may apply for as many as 8 rooms and for not less than 6 rooms. In Holworthy, however, on account...
...left unopened, for the question of the respective records in scholarship of public and private school men is one that can never be settled satisfactorily till a far more minute investigation of the subject is carried out. Yesterday morning the CRIMSON merely stated that the bare figures, by giving fewer scholarships to private school men than to public school men, were unfavorable to the former; there was no conscious assumption as to what the achievements of either group should be. Mr. Schenck gives some reasons, which are doubtless true in part, as to the whys and wherefores of this prima...
...Freshmen, and indeed all students, who contemplate entering any get rich-quick schemes would first consult with the Deans of the College, who are always anxious to help them, there would be fewer dollars lost and College careers reined by imprudent mock-business ventures...
There were fewer votes cast in both Junior and Sophomore elections than there have been for some years past. Only 202 men voted from 1915, and 255 from 1916,--not half of either class...
Poor work on the bases at critical moments was responsible for the defeat of the Harvard second baseball team, 4 to 3, by the Lawrence High School team at Lawrence yesterday afternoon. The fact that Harvard made more hits, fewer errors, and had eleven men left on bases goes to show that the game was quite unsatisfactory. In the ninth inning the score might have been tied but for the poor base running. Boyle and Macdonald pitched for Harvard...