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...October the number of boarders on the "fish and egg" system averaged 800. The average total cost of board to each of them was $5.96 per week. Granting, as those who ate it and even those who provided it will, that this was too high, how much of it shall we blame on the "transients"? The opponents of the latter system say eighty cents per week. We will take their figures. 800 men then paid 80 cents per week too much, total $640, to be divided among the guilty transients and borne by them. A week's board, 21 meals...
...opinion based on some study of Memorial Hall affairs, as to some of the important causes of the unsatisfactory condition there during the fall. Chiefly because of the large plant and the attempt to pay off the debt too rapidly Memorial can furnish board cheaply only when a large number of men are eating there. Owing to unfortunate experiments in the past, the number was small even at the beginning of the College year. The food under the "fish and egg" system was unsatisfactory to many. Some left the Hall and the result was still higher board to those remaining...
President Nicholas Murray Butler has been president of Columbia University since 1902. He has an enviable reputation as an educator and a scholar, as his long list of honorary degrees from universities at home and abroad testifies. In addition to serving on a number of commissions of education and on boards of trustees he has achieved distinction in the study of philosophy. His activities have not been confined to this country as he has studied and lectured in Germany, France, and England. Only last summer he lectured in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Christiania. While at Columbia President Butler has firmly opposed...
Professor David Franklin Houston, A. M. '92, has been prominent in educational affairs in the south for a number of years. He was graduated from South Carolina College in 1887 and in 1892 received the degree of A.M. from Harvard. Soon afterwards he became a professor of political science at the University of Texas. In 1905 he became president of the University of Texas and held that office until last spring, when he resigned to become chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Houston was born in Monroe, N. C., February...
...present an Overseer of the University. In addition to the A.B. degree, Mr. Storrow received the degree of LL.B. from the Law School in 1888. While an undergraduate he was a member of the University crew, and was captain of the winning crew of 1885. For a number of years since then he has been actively engaged in coaching the eights. Mr. Storrow was born in Boston...