Word: may
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...necessary that we have interchange of both professors and students. It has become an essential part of a liberal education to visit other countries and to become members of foreign universities. By the new system ideas of American freedom and of German veneration are exchanged. The American tariff may not be revised, but a new generation of scholars will arise which will look upon such artificial barriers as ridiculous...
...May I, as Chairman of the Trophy Room Committee, reply to the charges of neglect and mismanagement made by a correspondent in your issue of last Saturday? If your correspondent will look at the Trophy Room, he will see the reason why at the present moment banners, footballs, the Ardsley Cup, and other trophies are stored in the Gymnasium cellar. There is no room for them in the Trophy Room. What banners hang there are too closely spaced, and of the two cases there, one is already over-crowded with baseballs, and the other, devoted to football, baseball, and track...
...best to wait two or three years if necessary in hopes that the experiment will succeed, rather than commit itself to the only other alternative, the preservation of the banners between sheets of glass,--an alternative which is expensive, necessitates the taking down of the banners altogether, and may at any moment be proved to have been foolish and unnecessary. It is for the purpose of going on with the work of preserving the banners, as soon as the experiments warrant, that we are reserving this surplus fund. Taken all in all, then, I do not think that...
...public sale of tickets for the Dramatic Club performance of "The Promised Land" will begin tomorrow at the Co-operative Society and at Herrick's, Copley Square, and will continue until the last performance. The prices of the tickets, which may also be obtained by members of the University at Stoughton 2, are $1.50, $1.00, and 50 cents...
...next question is whether competent and successful business men will accept the positions if elected. President Eliot is of the opinion that the efficient citizen will accept, given conditions under which he may serve his city honestly and well. Another method of increasing municipal efficiency is to lengthen the term of office. In the new charters adopted by Galveston, Houston and Des Moines, this is done, and the chiefs of the city departments hold office for long periods. The three fundamental fea tures, however, of the system under which reform can best be secured are one chamber of delegates...