Word: hands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gatherings and it is extremely unusual in Oxford for strangers to fall into conversation and "make friends"--especially in the Union, where there is no "Living Room" and consequently the most frequented rooms are those in which silence is enforced either by rule or by custom. On the other hand, a man who takes part in the weekly debates, and stands for committees and offices, comes to know hundreds of men from all elements in the university. The debating hall and the committee room of the Union are the places where friendships are started. For men who have a common...
...lack of reliable information about existing conditions. The alumni clubs are effective agents in carrying out the good work of education, but there is ample opportunity for undergraduate organizations to work with them and to reach into unoccupied country. A great amount of material for distribution is at hand; systematic co-operation on the part of the existing clubs will send it at small expense of time and money to places where it will be effective in bringing the best men to the University...
...declared a higher dividend than at the Harvard Co-operative. This may be accounted for in part by the fact that the Co-operative not only declares a dividend on the total purchases of members but also attempts wherever practicable to lessen prices to non-members. On the other hand, while the following table shows that the Yale dividend was 15 per cent, this merely represents the reduction made in the price to members at the time of the sale. No cash dividend is paid on total sales at the end of the year. At the University Co-operative Company...
...serio-comic effect which seems hardly in place. Mr. Burlingame's story perhaps depends too much, for its impression, on the squalid and the revolting; and his narrative is inferior, on the whole, to his description. Mr. Rogers's account of "Griggs," the English butler, on the other hand, is effective as narrative. The method of suspense is employed with some skill, and a single point of view is well maintained...
...Association tickets may obtain one seat at the Dartmouth game free of charge, or two seats for $1.50, the price of a single seat to non-holders of H. A. A. tickets. The holder must make out an application in the usual manner and mark on the lower right hand corner his H. A. A. ticket number...