Word: kept
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sinking fund payments for at least two months. The Board of Directors has instructed the steward to serve meals at a price not exceeding $5 a week; and are confident that with the membership equal to the average attendance of the past two months the board can be kept at this figure without lowering the quality of food offered. The transient system will be continued. Coupons will be used for extra orders, and allowance will be made at the present rates for Sunday absence. The Directors propose to start on this plan when the Hall re-opens on January...
Tomorrow the morning service at Appleton Chapel will commemorate the birthday of Phillips Brooks, a loyal and distinguished son of Harvard who never fully outgrew his undergraduate days. During the years of preparation in the seminary and his early ministration in Philadelphia he constantly kept in touch with his friends in Cambridge and widened his acquaintance among the undergraduates who followed him. When he came to Boston as rector of Trinity Church his frequent visits to Appleton Chapel brought him in close touch with the students. The service tomorrow morning bears witness of the affection in which his memory...
...have been made by the New York newspapers that burglary has been increasing, due to the inefficiency of the police and detective forces. There is no possible proof that crime is on the increase, because, up to last year, only an imperfect and fragmentary record of the cases was kept. The policeman is not really responsible for the inefficiency of the force. If an over-zealous officer arrests a man who is influential in his ward, he is certain to get into trouble; if he makes too many arrests, he becomes disliked by the other policemen and by the sergeant...
After he was graduated from Harvard, Mr. Storey became private secretary to Charles Sumner in 1867 and kept the position until 1869, when he was admitted to the bar. He was editor of the American Law Review for several years; and since 1892 he has been an Overseer of Harvard College. He has written a "Life of Charles Sumner" and several works on political subjects...
...seconds. H. Jaques, Jr., '11 finished third in 34 minutes, 20 seconds, also beating last year's record. The pace set by Dull of Michigan was very fast and soon after the start the line of runners extended a quarter of a mile along the course. The leaders, however, kept well together until a steep hill was reached, two miles from the start. Here H. H. Howland of Technology took the lead, closely followed by Jaques and Young. This order was maintained for the first three miles. On the second lap Young took the lead, hard pushed by Dull...