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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...service in memory of the late Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, wife of Professor George H. Palmer, will be held in Appleton Chapel, on Saturday at 3.30 o'clock. Friends and associates of Mrs. Palmer are invited to attend. Former students of Professor Palmer may obtain tickets for reserved seats, by applying to Mr. W. C. Lane at the College Library, either by mail or in person any day this week between 11 and 12 o'clock...
...compliance with the instructions of the [Alumni] Association they [the Committee] have conferred with the President and Fellows of the College and with the Executive Committee of the Association, and, through a sub-committee appointed by them, have attempted to obtain an expression of opinion from the Alumni individually with reference to the matter submitted to this Committee. Letters in reply have been received from nearly two thousand Alumni, and half of these replies are from graduates of years earlier than 1890. The replies indicate much interest in the subject...
...will obtain an A.B. or a B.S. degree next June, and fourth year specials in good standing, who have not participated in any previous Senior Class election shall be eligible to vote. Doubtful cases shall be decided by the Election Committee...
Both boys and girls are brought at once to see that actually to obtain food and lodging in the Republic they must work, and as they cannot leave the Republic until after a certain length of time, they are literally obliged to work or starve. Thrown upon their own resources, they learn practically what it means to work for a living, how to earn money and how to use it. Through farming, through miscellaneous day laboring such as the digging of ditches, the making of roads, the building of fences and so on, through work in the hotels and restaurants...
...money. Mr. George found he had wasted the money he had had, and told him therefore he must work out his own problem. Three things were open to him: to sleep under the barn, to give himself up at the police court as a vagrant, or to obtain credit at one of the lodging houses. This last alternative he chose, the next morning he went to work breaking rocks for a roadway; he supported himself through the week and by the end of it paid off the debt of his first day's board and food. His lesson...