Word: hours
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...short time ago in one of our large economic courses the prescribed reading consisted of over one hundred and ninety pages, distributed evenly between two books. The reading is hard, and he is an exceptional man who can finish it in less than four hours. In Gore and Harvard Halls combined there are four copies of each of the books; one hundred and fifty men take the course, each one of whom, if lucky, can secure the required book for one hour at a time. Gore Hall is open seventy hours each week; Harvard Hall is open forty-eight. What...
...hall was packed with about 1200 men, and Mr. Houdini entertained them for about half an hour with sleight of hand tricks. He then produced a huge iron can, just large enough to contain him, and after demonstrating its soundness and air-tightness to a committee from the audience, filled it with water. He then stripped and gave a preliminary exhibition by squeezing himself in the can and remaining under water for one minute. After this he disappeared under water again, the water-tight lid was locked with six locks by the committee, and the curtain drawn...
...undergraduate petition to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will be delivered at the meeting this afternoon. At an early hour last evening 1500 names had been signed to the petition, which had taken a second start and was growing rapidly. Before it is handed in it promises to bear the names of considerably more than three-fourths of the entire undergraduate body...
...welfare of his scholars as the athletic coach is in the welfare of his charges, or the officers of a social club in its promotion. Results do not seem to justify this belief. We listen to dreary, ill-prepared talks--not lectures--and at the end of an hour fly with a sigh of relief to the athletic field or to the clubs. It is conceivable, that, if all our instructors delivered their lectures with the earnestness and eloquence of our borrowed professors, and took the personal interest in those under them that an athletic coach does, the academic interests...
...vote taken at Memorial Hall during the dinner hour last night on "Shall the present system be continued, or the former system be restored, until such time as a representative committee of five, to be appointed by the president from the table delegates, can investigate conditions and discover a more satisfactory system, which shall be approved by the directors and the Corporation," resulted in 541 votes in favor of continuing the present system, and 161 against it. In accordance with the action taken at the meeting of the table delegates, the directors will present a petition to the Corporation asking...