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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...actually appear. The regular daily menu is more complete than last year and many items on the extra order list are included. It is expected that the increased regular menu will furnish enough for a satisfying meal and that the demand for extra orders will therefore fall off. Consequently fewer will be offered. The price has been reduced from $5.50 a week to $5.25 and although a membership fee of $5 is charged, a man boarding at Memorial for more than 20 weeks--half the College year--will pay less this year than last. A trial week is allowed before...
...instance, we are told editorially that the "English of its stories ... is lax, incorrect, even worse than that of the average daily paper." Although the work is entirely done by untrained undergraduates it is fair to say that its print is clearer, its grammar purer, and its typographical mistakes fewer, than that of almost any daily paper in the country. Indeed through the whole series of Monthly articles we can- not at times help feeling that the writers mistake the object of the CRIMSON. It has not perhaps the Lampoon's originality, the critical ability of the Review of Reviews...
...with political or social duties, others are hard at work in athletics, a few work overmuch at their books, while the great body of the class drifts along from day to day, doing its appointed tasks mechanically well enough but doing very little thinking. I would like to see fewer distractions in the way of outside interests, fewer clubs, less serious athletics, less social scrambling, and more of the good old leisurely ripening under the influence of good books, intelligent friends, and inspiring teachers. We have lost the Humanities once and for all, but with them has gone much that...
Pledges to the Class Fund have been coming in with such unusual slowness as to cause grave doubts in regard to the success of the Fund; in fact, fewer pledges than "Lives" have been received. It will prove of enormous help in the bookkeeping, if pledges are sent in at once, whether or not accompanied by the first installment. Acknowledgments should have been received by all men who have sent in pledges and new cards will be sent upon application...
...worthy of comment. The saving in cost and convenience which this new move should effect is shown by the fact that during the year 1909-10 the different officers and departments of the University used more than eighteen thousand dollars' worth of stationery, and purchased this from no fewer than sixty-seven different stores in Boston and Cambridge...