Word: general
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...building at 1 o'clock, and at 2, a business meeting and election of officers will take place. At 2.15 o'clock, Professor J. L. Coolidge '95, assistant professor of mathematics in the University, will deliver a lecture entitled, "What Is a Ratio?" which will be followed by a general discussion, led by G. W. Evans '83, principal of the Charlestown high school. The meeting will be open to the public...
When the Harvard Dining Association was in the throes of despair last winter in its attempts to maintain a respectably large membership and at the same time keep down the price of the general board, the Corporation decided to lend its aid. A fixed guaranty of four dollars was finally decided upon and the new scheme of allowances for absences and the establishing of table for transients seemed at the time to warrant the guaranty. After the guaranty was removed, however, the boarders were left to the tender mercies of the Association and the Corporation withdrew...
Figures have recently been compiled for the month of October which show that during the first month of the College year the general board cost each member of the Association $4.67. This is considerably greater than the estimates made last year and is probably as high as it has ever been. Evidently something more than the general increase in the cost of living has been accountable for this difference. It seems the trouble has been due largely to a miscalculation in regard to the transient tables. Men eating at these tables have been able to board generously on an average...
Dean Briggs expressed in the first speech of the evening the general satisfaction which is felt by all Harvard men in the football victory. Walter Camp is an acknowledged football expert who has developed a system of coaching which has drawn men of athletic ability from all parts of the country. This year Haughton has worsted him. Harvard has suffered lately from a reputation of inefficiency in athletics in everything except baseball. We cannot be accused of considering football the ultimate goal toward which to strive, but the real goal is the successful application of trained intelligence in everything...
...Wells '97, general secretary of the Harvard Alumni Association, is now on a six weeks' trip to visit Harvard Clubs in many parts of the country. Mr. Wells will meet the members of the various clubs to talk over whatever matters are of interest to the University and the Association. He will also take steps to inform the graduates of the recent events at the University, and of the work which the Alumni Association is trying to do. Mr. Wells will return about December...