Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tickets for the Senior picnic will go on sale today at 12 o'clock at Leavitt's, the Union and the news stands in Memorial and Randall Halls. In order that the committee may get an early idea of the amount of provision necessary, the price of these tickets will be 50 cents apiece if purchased before tomorrow night; after that, the price of tickets may be raised to 75 cents to meet any apparent deficit. A ticket holder will be entitled to the trip on the superb steamer "King Philip," and to a free lunch and dinner on Misery...
...Waste saved. Plates of meat not ordered could not be brought to the tables to get cold, and be wasted. Fewer orders would go down scarcely tasted. Thus a saving would be effected in the most expensive part of our provisions. For the meat, fish, and eggs, cost three times as much as all other provisions for the Hall put together...
...however, considers that a trial now is inadvisable, for even if the members of the Hall should approve of a trial, the time before the end of the year is probably too short to make the necessary changes in the bookkeeping. and not run some risk of failing to get the board-bills to the Bursar promptly. It is, however, possible that the Directors may decide to submit to a vote of the Association membership this spring the question of giving the new plan a trial next autumn...
...mental delusion and, to avoid being a drag on his family and friends, he would commit suicide by jumping off the Fall river boat. The note was received in Cambridge the next day. Thee porter and the newsboy on the boat, however, state that they saw him get off the boat on Friday morning and the baggage agent on the wharf asserts to have seen him on the wharf on Sunday, March 1. He has since been reported at the Waldorf-Astoria and at other places in New York. His family in New York is confident of his return...
...began at the Longwood Bridge and ended about three-eighths of a mile below the Watertown Bridge, a distance of almost three miles. The second crew was given a start of 20 seconds and although the first steadily shortened the distance between the two boats it was unable to get the lead. Owing to the crooked course and the rough water, caused by a strong ebb tide and a wind blowing up-stream, the time was slow. The orders of the crews were somewhat different from those of the early part of the week. Lawson replaced Hartwell...