Word: paper
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first session will be opened at 2 o'clock this afternoon with a prayer by Rev. G. A. Gordon '81, pastor of the Old South Church. Mr. Gifford Pinchot will read the first paper. His subject will be the future of forest trees in New England. He is generally regarded as the first authority on forestry in the United States. Professor John Craig, chief of the Department of Horticulture at Cornell, will read the second paper. His subject will be the opportunities in New England for the cultivation of orchards and the raising of fruit. The two papers will...
...more or less than most Lampoons. Some of the jokes and poems are funny and cleverly done, but they seem no more appropriate to the Lampoon than they would be to a publication of similar end and nature in any other college, or for that matter to any "funny paper" in general. One realizes perhaps that jokes are being cracked at the expense of college life, but of what college life one gets no inkling, unless indeed it be just that vagueness and lack of local stamp which stamps...
...paper, at least, this scheme has good possibilities. It should serve the purpose of putting the Senior in closer touch with his small group of men than was possible before, and furthermore, it can be made of the same assistance in acquainting the Freshmen with one another. At first glance, the new arrangement seems to require considerably more interest in the Freshman on the part of the Senior than is usually manifested. In operation, it is not expected that it will require more than a small sacrifice of time. The committee is somewhat smaller than formerly on the theory that...
...Rhodes read an interesting paper on economic conditions in this country during President Hayes's administration, paying special attention to the notable manner in which Hayes averted the panics following close after the Civil War. Hayes took the presidential chair only after a bitter struggle with Tilden, and with the reputation of being the only president who ever entered upon that office with the word "Fraud" stamped on his forehead. His struggles with the Senate and with the members of his cabinet, in trying to put an end to the panic that was causing so many strikes throughout the country...
...competitions for the positions on the editorial board and the financial end will be opened in the near future. Men from the Sophomore or Freshman classes who are interested in the work of the paper or who are desirous of profiting by the experience which a good competition affords will be given every opportunity to prove their fitness...