Word: let
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...over sixty places in Boston, Roxbury, and Brookline where rooms were available, and in some cases board, for men in the Medical School. As a result of this personal canvass we were able to publish in August a room-registry containing the names and addresses of people desiring to let rooms to our students, as well as the number and prices of both single and double rooms and the cost of table board, if such was available. Copies of this room-registry were placed with the Dean to be sent to new men coming to the School. Also copies were...
...column of the CRIMSON and elsewhere; the approval of the swimming pool plan was announced yesterday; and the treasurer's annual report was published showing an alarming increase in the deficit. If there is such a thing as a psychological moment, this is the time for an undergraduate vote. Let the matter drag along until the next Student Council meeting in the dim future, and the interest which has been aroused may then be languishing or dead. Possibly the question of hat-bands is more important; but it is to be regretted that the absence of a member or members...
...What Mr. Dos Passos says constitutes a sound reply to his fellow-editor, Mr. McComb, on a preceding page. A. K. McC., whom we suspect to be this very Mr. McComb, even says, combatting the work of Mr. Herrick, "We know that trade is continuing between Italy and Germany. Let it continue by all means. Every little thing which still binds an agonized Europe should be preserved." But it may be that the little things that Germany receives from Italy are contributing more to agony than to bonds...
...theme is a typical Galsworthy one--"let the strong pity the weak." We have seen it in "The Fugitive" and less clearly, in "The Pigeon." William Falder, a junior law clerk, forges a check to obtain money with which to run off with the woman he loves, who is married to a brute of a husband. His deed is discovered and he is summoned before the court, tried, sentenced, and imprisoned. After three years he is freed again and hunts for a job, followed everywhere by the stigma of his prison term. He finds Ruth Honeywill, the woman he loves...
...Union, they say, is democratic--"ruled by the people," according to etymology. Then let the Union be democratic, without the tyrannical and undemocratic method of compulsion. A SENIOR...