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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...propose the adoption of the American plan to the members of the dining association and a vote will be taken on this proposition today. Nobody seems to be able to find out just what is the matter with Memorial or in fact what has been the matter for the past few years. Different directorates have proposed different remedies, new schemes have been tried and generally discarded as unsatisfactory after a few weeks' trial, and the price of board has fluctuated during all these proceedings more violently than any change in the price of materials would warrant. Meanwhile, there has been...
...this plan by remitting three-fourths of the sinking fund payments for at least two months. The Board of Directors has instructed the steward to serve meals at a price not exceeding $5 a week; and are confident that with the membership equal to the average attendance of the past two months the board can be kept at this figure without lowering the quality of food offered. The transient system will be continued. Coupons will be used for extra orders, and allowance will be made at the present rates for Sunday absence. The Directors propose to start on this plan...
Today the Seniors must complete their choice of men for the final positions of honor and responsibility in the class. In past years the vote cast for the committees has not compared favorably with the preceding election, which itself, we are forced to admit, seldom attracts as large a vote as the class, collectively speaking, would like to see. In some respects the final election is fully as important as the first, for upon its result the success of Class Day and of the future organization of the class largely depends. The situation this year calls for even a more...
...speech by President Hadley of Yale University on "The Obligations of the Prize Winner." Deturs were awarded to about twenty scholars of the first group who had never before received this form of academic recognition, and the names of the principal prize winners and scholars of the past year were read...
...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 men on their merits as shown during these past three years, men who have been tried and not found wanting, men whose ambitions and hopes have been towards the best things in the life of the class. There are men in the class who are worthy of the honor of such an election for what they have done...