Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON has been interested to find out whether the voting at the election of Class Day officers this year compared favorably or otherwise with the voting at former elections. There were in the neighborhood of 620 eligible voters at the recent elections and 317 voted for the officers while only 246 took the trouble to vote for the committees. This is approximately 51 per cent. for the first election and 39 per cent. for the second. These figures are unfortunately considerably lower than in most years, and lower even than the average for the past four years, while the present...
There are in the neighborhood of six hundred and fifty men in the present Senior Class. From this number the class will choose today nine of the Class Day officers, some of whom will hold permanent positions of leadership and advice in the class, while to the other men elected will be entrusted part of the exercises on Class Day this coming spring. From among these six hundred and more men the class is now ready to choose the men who are deserving and competent to shoulder the responsibilities of the class in the years after graduation; to choose...
...with the first point that the Committee is now occupied. Cases such as have been described cost in the neighborhood of $300 apiece; and a beginning, and we hope a precedent, in raising the money has been made with contributions from the Class Fund of 1908. In two years' time we hope to be able to install the first of our cases as a gift from...
...proceeds up against a rainy Saturday. The explanation is simple: the Athletic Association figures its postage account even as closely as does the writer, and, furthermore, it has found in past years when only ten cents in postage was required that it has been obliged to pay in the neighborhood of $300 to cover the extra postage required on letters that are over weight. All of the writer's assumptions are correct except the statement that two cents will bear the weight of the envelope and its contents. It will be sufficient for some of the letters, but for many...
...passed a resolution in favor of such banks. It is hoped that Congress will pass a bill to that effect, at its next session. The plan advocated is a simple one. The money entrusted to the postal savings banks will be turned over to the national banks in the neighborhood, so that it will be easily accessible. All people over ten years of age will be allowed to open accounts. Interest, amounting to 2 per cent. will be paid on all deposits not exceeding five hundred dollars...