Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Greater publicity would go far toward securing less corruption in our city governments. Not only should the meetings of the board be open to the public, but the proceedings and the auditing accounts should also be published at short intervals...
...less than a month now before the last race of the season in view of which all of the preliminary work, including the two victories, has been done. At present the crew is by no means a perfect one, but they are rowing splendidly together and with a few weeks of training, especially for the longer distance, should acquit themselves creditably on the Thames...
...appeal has been issued from the Treasurer of the Senior class, urging more subscriptions to the class fund and a prompt payment of the first instalment on the sums already pledged. The class of 1908 has less than a month left of undergraduate life and only 248 men have made any response to the Treasurer's original request for subscriptions. Considerably less than half of the amount due has been paid in, and the total amount subscribed so far, $10,795, is much below the average. The report of the 1907 class Treasurer shows a total available fund...
...dormitories and the Union for those of smaller means. For the former class, their club-mates. For the former class, their club-mates and their surroundings in the private dormitories are refining influences, and although a poor man may work his way through College, he is thought none the less a man. The craze for being the social equals of wealthy men, in contrast to Europe, does not exist among the poorer men in the American University...
Athletics hold a prominent place, and although their intense worship is an abuse, it is much better than the dissipation of continental university students, and provides a great disciplinary force for American men. Although less scholarly than their European contemporaries, American students are better fitted for life, and in every one of them is a desire to make America great, which makes American universities not only establishments of advanced learning, but centres for the inculcation of the national spirit...