Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that will be fire-proof. The present wooden floor and beams will be replaced by iron beams, surmounted by brick arches with a cement covering. On this it was originally intended to put a mosaic or tiled floor, but as this would have prevented holding Senior dances, a hard oak floor will be substituted, and the expense of this will be shared in all probability by the Association and the funds of future Class Day Committees until the sum is paid...
...system of loaning furniture to students will be carried on next year along the same lines as heretofore. There are fifty-one complete sets and a number of partial sets of oak furniture, for which application may be made. The rental of a complete set is $7.50 a year, a rebate of $2.50 being allowed if the furniture is re-engaged. The partial sets are rented at relative prices. Applications for sets should be made as early as possible to R. R. Alexander, Thayer...
Among the illustrations, the Prehistoric Yachting Party is an exceptionally clever piece of work in an odd style. One or two of the outline drawings are also good. The other illustrations are not conspicuously well done. The verses include another restaurant lyric--to the divinities of the Oak Grove, this time,--and four stanzas to a Poster Girl, which deserve favorable mention...
...addition to the Constitution, another question must soon be considered. The large living-room of the Union is panelled with oak of sufficient thickness to allow bas reliefs to be cut into it. In this panelling it is planned to have memorials of Harvard men. Money has been promised from an anonymous source sufficient for twelve of these memorials and it seems desirable that the panels should be carved for the opening of the building. One of the questions which must be taken up by the committee is the list of names which the University would like to commemorate...
...would bow when we passed. A bow is a little thing but it means a good deal. Then we would make it a point to speak to everyone wearing the class uniform when we met them in recitations or in crowded hallways, in Leavitt's or in the Oak Grove, at the base-ball games or at Yard concerts. The class would be cemented. Everyone would have a feeling that he belonged to something tangible and not to a mere string of numbers that meant nothing. No one need be ashamed to wear a cap and gown...