Word: letting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...allowed to smoke at will in the hall, in which the air, despite the fact, remains clear and fresh. Certainly it is not necessary for the attractiveness and prosperity of our hall to be impaired by any antediluvian prejudices. If the Corporation would avoid the necessity of a guaranteed, let them amend this damaging...
...applicants from considerable inconvenience. There are a good many technical requirements to be fulfilled before the applications can be considered, chief of which is the demand that a bond be properly filed with the Bursar. Many men have been disappointed in the past through neglect of the minor details. Let their misfortune be a warning to others...
...reason the team is not being supported. An opportunity to play baseball is being wasted, while we compromise ourselves by the damaging admission that after all an "H" is the only incentive that drives men to play baseball. As we would support a scrub series if we had one, let us now support the second team. More candidates are needed without further delay...
...number of men who have come out for the Senior class crew is disgracefully small. All those Seniors who were dropped off the University squad had better report today at the Weld at 3.45 or let me know the reason why they will not. They were taken on the University squad partly to be tried out, but chiefly to be given a chance to get some coaching before the class crews came out. This kind of spirit of only rowing on one of the two University crews is selfish and disgraceful. It is a bad example to the younger oarsmen...
...interest yourself, to lose yourself, in some issue not personal to yourself--in another man's trouble or, preferably, another man's joy. But if the dark hour does not vanish, as sometimes it doesn't; if the black cloud will not lift, as sometimes it will not; let me tell you again for your comfort that there are many liars in the world, but there are no liars like your own sensations. The despair and the horror mean nothing, because there is for you nothing irremediable, nothing ineffaceable, nothing irrecoverable in anything you may have said or thought...