Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reasons: either because they think it their duty, or because they think that they can use it profitably. No man becomes a member merely for the sake of the lectures, especially when it is so easy to borrow a ticket. The suggested plan would bring a considerable sum of money into the Union treasury; it would enable the deserving student to listen to lectures which he could not otherwise hear; and it would extract something from the conscienceless non-member who might otherwise borrow a ticket...
...French never solved. Through the wonderful work accomplished by Colonel Goethals, the death-rate, which in 1906 was 41 per thousand laborers, was reduced in 1908 to 13 per thousand. Yellow fever and small-pox, which had previously carried off thousands of men, were completed wiped out. The money expended in bringing about this reform will be $20,000,000 before the canal is finished, but it is estimated that already over 15,000 lives have been saved because of improved sanitary conditions...
...every year and usually oftener, some individuals inflict upon the University a cheap publication which is supposed to be witty enough to conceal the purely mercenary purposes of its anonymous perpetrators. With silent disapproval and fast tiring patience the University has allowed itself to be subjected to these fatuous money-making schemes. Each time the University has hoped that there would be no more and that the present one would not get beyond its walls...
...University on applying in person at the Co-operative Branch. The distribution will begin today. Only one free ticket will be allowed each applicant and this must be for personal use. Additional tickets may be procured at 25 cents each by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope and the money to the Debating Council, Thayer 14. The public may also obtain tickets in this way. The tickets will admit to certain sections, but the seats in these sections will not be reserved...
...effort is being made to raise money for a memorial photograph of the late Assistant Professor Henry A. Torrey, to be placed in Boylston Hall. Those men who took advanced work under him and who desire to make subscriptions to this fund are requested to communicate with E. K. Bolton 3G., at 12 Boylston Hall, or with S. L. Wolfman 2L., at 552 Green street, Cambridge, not later than April 1, 1911. W. A. BOUGHTON...