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...choosing of the undergraduate personnel of the Houses undoubtedly presents some of the gravest problems in connection with the House Plan. The restricted numbers for which the first two Houses provide makes it inevitable that there will be many opportunities for ill-feeling on the part of excluded men. If the responsibility of selection rests with a committee of several different persons it would make it difficult for these men to get adequate explanation of their exclusion. False impressions of favoritism on the part of some members of the committee would be allowed to flourish, and in general the situation...
...most interesting features of the flat $8.50 charge entitling. House members to the first fourteen meals they eat per week is the fact that it places a premium upon eating breakfast away from the House. The mathematics are complicated but they run something as follows. In the first place is will be instructive to consider the case of the man who goes ahead and eats the first fourteen meals in any week. We find him on Friday noon having eaten four dinners, five breakfasts, and five lunches. At the quoted per meal price of .80, .30, and .60 respectively...
...residential groups was as yet very remote, but quite apart from such an ultimate-object it was felt that to treat the Freshmen in this way had merits which made it eminently worthwhile, and the Halls were built. Now they can also serve the purpose for which they were first conceived, and there is all the more reason why separate halls for the freshmen should be retained. This is contrary to the views of some good friends, who do not appreciate the obstacles to be surmounted in carrying out the House plan, and urge that it would be better...
Harvard opened the scoring in the first stanza when Broadbent tallied on a beautiful shot. The play continued evenly until Morris, forward for the Elis, knotted the count in the second period...
...self-preservation that Clemenceau had to find. At times he probably overstepped the limits of precedence, always focusing his attention on the end rather than the means, and some have questioned his drastic and dramatic gestures. But he did attain his purpose in spite of the huge odds the first days of the war heaped up against him. It was this direct, energetic, indomitable spirit that made him a figure of world importance. He was one of the last of the war lords...