Word: personal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some one, we suspect a member of the graduate department, has written a Harvard letter to one of our contemporaries from the far West which we feel it almost beneath us to notice. This person has undertaken to deal sarcastically with our manner of living and with the financial management of the University, and has made it appear that Harvard is intolerable in the extreme. He pictures a state of affairs which would be ridiculous in any college and which is far from what we enjoy. We do not want graduates of other colleges to come to Harvard who cannot...
Since our editorial on the poor way in which the Cary building is carried on, we have heard other complaints of a similar nature concerning other college property. In all cases it has been nearly impossible to find out what person has charge of the buildings on the University grounds. Every one who has tried to solve the problem has encountered the same difficulties; he has been sent from one officer to another, he has found a great number of men who might have charge, but no one who will take any responsibility on himself. It is strange that some...
...Atlantic Monthly for November opens with eight chapters of a serial by Stockton, "The House of Martha." Neither Martha nor House appears and the story so far has neither apparent subject nor object. It is told in the first person and concerns itself with a hired listener for the story-teller's stories and an amanuensis with a malarial husband. Stockton is no longer in his prime and this story threatens to be far from prime...
...meeting then proceeded to nominations. The nominations for president were: G. C. Lee, Jr., B. G. Waters and L. A. Ahlers; for vice-president, R. B. Beals and K. Smith; for secretary and treasurer (both offices, it was voted, to be held by the same person), H. Morgan and G. C. Kellogg...
...from joining the club. As a consequence the income of the club was barely enough to cover expenses and could do nothing toward paying for boats which must be bought in the future. It was necessary that if any damage was done to any of the boats that the person who had use of the boats at the time must pay for it. This some members had shown a dislike to do. It had been found necessary to post up a number of rules about conduct in the house and these had been to some extent disregarded. The students were...