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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lockers the dust of ages has accumulated. Many of the machines for pulling weights are out of order, there are not enough mats to go around, the dressing rooms are usually uncomfortably overheated, and there are countless other disadvantages. In comparison with the equipment of other colleges, or plant is medieval in every respect...
...Olympion Theatron and The Battle of Olympia," by Louis Dyer '74; "The Cleominades and Related Folk-Tales," by C. H. Grandgent '83; "Foreign Associates of National Societies," by E. C. Pickering '65; "New Laboratory Manual of Physics," by S. E. Coleman '97; "A Laboratory Course in Plant Physiology," by W. F. Ganong '87; Peace, Power, and Plenty," by O. S. Marden, M.D. '82; "Modern German Prose: A Reader for Advanced Classes," by A. D. Nichols '91; "The Spell," by W. D. Orcutt...
...much for the facts. I should like to add an opinion based on some study of Memorial Hall affairs, as to some of the important causes of the unsatisfactory condition there during the fall. Chiefly because of the large plant and the attempt to pay off the debt too rapidly Memorial can furnish board cheaply only when a large number of men are eating there. Owing to unfortunate experiments in the past, the number was small even at the beginning of the College year. The food under the "fish and egg" system was unsatisfactory to many. Some left the Hall...
...that the fixed expenses are unusually heavy before the question of food enters into it at all. There is due the Corporation each year something over $14,000 in interest payments and in payment of the sinking fund. Then there are the heavy expenses of the large and cumbersome plant. It is a problem to serve board to 1200 and more people under these conditions at a price ranging from $4 to $5 a week and it is a reasonable question whether it is wise for a constantly changing directorate of students to have charge of its business rather than...
Summer improvements in the University plant were centred chiefly in Holyoke House, where an electric passenger elevator running up through the old stair well and a system of hot water heating have been installed. Additional lights in the corridors, remodelled bathrooms, and a complete renovation of all the rooms have still further changed the interior of the building and have put it on a par with Little's Block for convenience of location and accommodations in the rooms. On the Massachusetts Avenue side of the building new double sashes have been added to the windows to lesson noise from...