Word: five
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...survival, generally useless, perhaps absurd, and sometimes harmful. If writers had before their minds the seven o'clock bell which peals from the enpola of Harvard Hall, they could not have better formulated their definitions. For no apparent reason, the students in the Yard are daily inflicted with five minutes of sleep destroying agony. When inquiries are made concerning this nerve-shattering tocsin, the reply is invariable: that the bell has always been rung at seven, and probably will always be rung at seven, until its vibrations will have shaken down the very pillars which support...
Beginning Monday physical training classes will be held in the Hemenway Gymnasium at 4 and 5 o'clock. For many years these classes have been held at 5 o'clock only and have come to be popularly known as five o'clock classes. This year however, the demand for exercising facilities on the part of upperclassmen and graduates is so great as to warrant holding two classes. Mr. Schrader will continue to act as instructor. No formalities are required of members of the class and the only restriction as to costume is that they shall wear shoes without hard heals...
Beginning Monday, the Union will be open only to those who hold membership cards. These may be purchased at the Union by any man connected with the University. The membership fee is five dollars and may be charged on the term bill...
...unqualified success. In the latter part of June sixty men spent ten days at North-field in conference with delegations from other eastern colleges. Brooks House itself was open all summer for the use of Summer School students, and magazines and writing facilities were provided for them. Twenty-five hundred Freshman Handbooks were printed and distributed this fall. The Information Bureau, now the official Bureau for the University, has been open daily including Sunday from September 8th to the present time, and has been of incalculable service to new men, especially the list of rooms. The Christian Asociation has resumed...
...Harvard Endowment Fund. Of this $700,000 was raised by voluntary subscription in Boston and the rest came from other parts of the country. In Boston the donors' names were not announced, but individual subscriptions included one for $100,000, two for $50,000, 16 for $25,000, five for $10,000 and five for $5,000. Subscriptions made through members of the various teams calling upon alumni in Boston and vicinity will not be known until this morning when depositories report to the General Committee...