Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seat tables for the Senior Spread will be put on sale today. Any underclassmen who have received invitations to subscribe to the Senior Spread can get their tickets at the sale today...
...crews rowed in long stretches to the Union Boat Club and back without coaching. Bullard and Bancroft exchanged seats in the first boat several times. This row was merely to get the men together in their new orders, as today there will be hard work which ought to result at least in the final selection of a stroke. Dr. Hutchinson '90 will be in Cambridge this morning, and in order that he may have a chance to see the work of the crews, they will probably row in the morning. The squad will go to New London a week from...
Some searching criticism has followed when still another director arises in Wednesday's CRIMSON and says in effect: "Hold, hold. These whom you criticise are members of the Faculty endorsed by the President and Fellows. How could you get a more perfect set of men or a better plan?" Now it is submitted that because the Corporation considers a man fit to instruct in Engineering or even to be in the English department it does not thereby recommend him as an expert in seismology or for president of the steel trust or even as an average acute business...
...They forget, or do not know, that modern business is done on credit and not on legal liabilities. A student under age is trusted for luxuries by tradesmen not because he can be sued, but because his honor will cause him to pay. And so the Co-operative can get credit not because its legal liability is fixed on certain persons, but because it has always paid its bills...
Aside from any plan of re-organization it may be questioned why officers of any undergraduate society should get salaries or professional fees. A lesson might be drawn from the overthrow of the late directorate of Memorial because it voted a $50.00 position to one of its members. The Presidents of Memorial and of Randall and the Chairman of the Athletic Committee get no salary, yet to the lay mind their work is quite as exacting as the Presidency of the Co-operative. T. H. WHITNEY...