Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...class affair, and every man in the class should be willing to help to the best of his ability to make the dance a success. The former Union dances have been highly successful, because the committees have had the support of their classes. Has the class of 1909 less class feeling than the others? It unfortunately appears so from the present outlook. W. G. WENDELL...
...should nevertheless remember that he can by a little effort secure his books to better advantage at legitimate stores, and that his ill-advised purchases will have their effect, not upon him, but upon the multitude of non-investors who are besieged by an army of more or less incapacitated persons passing as agents. Indifferent attention to their tales of woe will not rid us of these afflictions. Only a boycott, which is legal and justifiable, will restore the dormitories to comparative peace...
...most in demand. As long as they are actually using the books no one can severely censure them except for dullness; but when they attempt to found a private library by stealthy and underhand methods, it is time for all fairminded frequenters of the Library, as well as the less studiously inclined, to constitute themselves into a detective agency and bring the offenders under the fire of public opinion, if not of more summary justice...
...this end. A reduction in the fixed charges, such as the cost of service, will be made. Within the past week the pay-roll of the Hall has been cut down by $590 a month. The variety of food offered will be curtailed, the articles on the menus being less in number, but changed daily instead of offered all at once. The present coupon system will be investigated, both within Memorial Hall and in the University without, with a view to devising a less expensive system of running the Hall...
With the price of general board fixed at $3 per week and with the price of coupon articles remaining the same, it is expected that the majority of the members of the Hall will be able to board for $5 per week or less. During September and October the average weekly amount of coupons used per member was $2.15 and during November it was $1.90. If the membership of the Hall can be increased to its full capacity, which is 1300, the price of general board can be brought below $3. The present number of members is 890. The average...