Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they wish to use the furniture provided for them. At present, the University not only gives the beds, desks, and other essentials, but also insists that these fixtures remain in the rooms. The result of this is that every one has adequate living equipment, but if a man's personal tastes should differ from those of the College, he is needlessly compelled to keep those pieces provided with the suite...
...House Masters are acutely conscious of the necessity of having the furnishing of the rooms as varied as possible, especially since the rooms will be occupied by the same man for three years in succession. The difficulties in the way of achieving a goal of real individuality for each suite are largely financial and the House Masters deserve all support possible in whatever opposition they may meet from the Bursar's office in its ultimate achievement. The rugs, which it is proposed to rent to House Members, for instance, should be sufficiently varied in design to allow of real selection...
...members to the first fourteen meals they eat per week is the fact that it places a premium upon eating breakfast away from the House. The mathematics are complicated but they run something as follows. In the first place is will be instructive to consider the case of the man who goes ahead and eats the first fourteen meals in any week. We find him on Friday noon having eaten four dinners, five breakfasts, and five lunches. At the quoted per meal price of .80, .30, and .60 respectively he has eaten a total of $7.70 but has paid...
What are the eating arrangements in those English universities which bulk so large in every discussion of the House Plan? Take Emmanuel College, Cambridge, John Harvard's own college. There a charge is imposed for five dinners a week. If a man eats less than five "in Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must...
...survey made in these lectures is a guide to work and contemplation. It aims toward giving perspective. It gives a sane and modest view of man's place in the scheme. But in addition to giving a comprehensive view, the classification serves to interpret some phases of the sidereal universe in a clearer form than before...