Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON has been interested to find out whether the voting at the election of Class Day officers this year compared favorably or otherwise with the voting at former elections. There were in the neighborhood of 620 eligible voters at the recent elections and 317 voted for the officers while only 246 took the trouble to vote for the committees. This is approximately 51 per cent. for the first election and 39 per cent. for the second. These figures are unfortunately considerably lower than in most years, and lower even than the average for the past four years, while the present...
...have proposed different remedies, new schemes have been tried and generally discarded as unsatisfactory after a few weeks' trial, and the price of board has fluctuated during all these proceedings more violently than any change in the price of materials would warrant. Meanwhile, there has been the ever present interest to be met at the close of each year on the loan given by the Corporation at the time of the renovation of the Hall in 1904, and the sinking fund to be set aside to pay off this debt. Early in the fall, when the price of board...
...problem is by no means an easy one, however, as it should be borne in mind that the fixed expenses are unusually heavy before the question of food enters into it at all. There is due the Corporation each year something over $14,000 in interest payments and in payment of the sinking fund. Then there are the heavy expenses of the large and cumbersome plant. It is a problem to serve board to 1200 and more people under these conditions at a price ranging from $4 to $5 a week and it is a reasonable question whether...
...this arrangement will bring the desired results. The members will be given a chance to formally vote on this question today. Apparently, things are unsatisfactory as they are now and the new plan may be the right one. If the Corporation is willing to remit the interest during these months, it must be worth at least a trial...
...portrayals that Mrs. Fiske has ever given but they will witness a production which is not alone extraordinary but unique. There will be moments in the first act when they will gasp at the cold-blooded, sheer brutality of the dialogues and situations; there will be times when their interest will sag, owing to the young author's too great love of mere characteristic detail; then again, they will be thrilled by the strength of many of the scenes, for with all of his youthful crudities on his head, this lad has in his play some splendid passages of tense...