Word: finding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Many students wishing to buy stamps for their New York mail find the Cambridge Post Office (on Brattle street) closed after 8 p. m. Since the New York mail does not go until 9.30 p. m., I see no reason why the Post Office can not be kept open till 9.30 p. m. Since the CRIMSON has already done such effective work in securing new quarters for the Post Office, I am sure they will give this matter its due consideration and cooperation...
...Casper Whitney reiterates his charges against Western athletics in the current number of Harper's Weekly, giving most of his attention to Minnesota. He seems to think Michigan too far gone for reform. It is a relief to find Whitneys definition of an amateur accurately stated, and to feel that one can honestly differ with him and still consistently advocate purity in athletics. He says an amateur is one who plays purely for love of the sport; a professional, one who plays in part for gain. This, as has so often been said, confines amateurism to the wealthy, and makes...
...object inview, of calming stubbornness, and appealing to prisoners through hope rather than fear, the Elmira reformatory system has been introduced and bids fair to become a success, so far as may be expected of any remedy for the disease of crime. At Elmira every effort is made to find the weak points of each prisoner and to strengthen him by striet discipline and training, morally, mentally and physically. His progress is carefully watched, and where the system is properly enforced, the prisoner knows that his final release depends altogether on his own conduct...
...only awarded to a work which embodies considerable research. Tappan prizes have been taken by Professors Channing and Taussig, and also by Professor Robinson, now of Columbia, and Professor Currier, of the Institute of Technology. The winning of the prize is a great distinction, and a successful paper would find ready opportunity of publication, either in Harvard Historical Studies or elsewhere...
There are two distinct groups of paupers, those who, through laziness or various vicious qualities, will not work, and those who, owing to some infirmity, can not work. The first, if he is physically and mentally able to find work but still refuses, merits little sympathy or consideration and should be left to suffer. With the second class it is different. He may have been incapacitated for work through no fault...