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...progress which has been made in New York to offset this condition has been in the destruction of dark alleys, where poor tenements containing rooms in which no light or air had access, were prevalent. In the investigations made by a committee for the purpose, 360,000 rooms were found which did not have any external openings for light or air. Now the laws forbid the erection of any structure in which there shall be a single room which does not have an external opening. Mr. Riis showed many interesting views of the poorer quarters of New York under...
...second great evil that the investigating committee found in the slums was the environment in which the children were raised, which it described as containing all the influences that tend toward unrighteousness and corruption. Much of the best work that has been done in New York to offset this environment has been accomplished by means of new school-houses, recreation centres, and open playgrounds. In the last few years $80,000,000 has been spent by the School Committee of New York in this work...
...report on the speculation in Yale game tickets was referred to the committee in charge of seats for next year. The question of giving out tickets to men whose tickets were found in the hands of speculators last fall was left to the discretion of the committee...
...University squad has been graded into first, second, and third eights and one four-oar. The work of the University second crew was not satisfactory yesterday, as was shown in their row down-stream below Harvard bridge and back. The men found difficulty in rowing together and in keeping the boat on an even keel. Furthermore, the work individually was ragged...
...funniest caricatures ever seen on the Pudding stage. It was not a figure one had ever seen, but a figure one would not be at all surprised to see. His song, "I'm a hustling, bustling woman," with the accompanying dance, was extraordinary without being mortifying. Osborne found it as difficult to stay in his part as in his costume, but the song was one of the hits of the show. B. Moore '08 as the anarchist, marred what was otherwise a clever burlesque of the villain of melodrama by continual overemphasis. He is potentially the best actor...