Word: retains
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...vote will be taken at Memorial Hall this evening during the dinner hour to determine whether the Harvard Dining Association shall retain the new system or revert to the old. The last report of the Dining Association seems to prove conclusively the success of the present plan, since the average board is about 40 cents lower than at a corresponding period of last year, and the enrolled membership 251 greater than at the first of March, when the new scheme was adopted...
Another step has been taken in the formation of the greater University. When the Andover Seminary moves bodily to Cambridge next autumn, it will retain its own identity; but will increase the efficiency of our own Divinity School, by co-operating with it to prevent needless competition and duplication of courses. The two schools will be mutually helpful, contributing students to each other, and thereby virtually becoming fused in a common aim, Harvard has made provision for receiving students in the Andover Seminary into full membership in the University, and the Seminary will have full use of our great libraries...
Coach Pieper gave the Freshmen a word of warning in regard to allowing athletics to be laid open to faculty criticism by too much devotion to sports and too little attention to studies. To retain our intercollegiate contests it is essential that the faculty be shown that sports do not hinder college studies. Coach Pieper also emphasized the fact that every place on baseball teams is open to the best man, and every position will be filled only after the keenest sort of competition...
...class debating should be left to individual enterprise, an entirely new system of debating clubs has grown up within the University. In the place of the Agora and Forum of last year, there are now five independent societies, with a total membership of about 85. Two of them still retain the names of Agora and Forum, but they have been change constitutionally in the direction of informality. Debating has now become an essentially informal affair, and three of the clubs do not even have offices. The Agora and Forum, as they now exist, have 25 and 20 members respectively...
Contrary to the notice in yesterday's CRIMSON, members of the Harvard Dining Association will be granted full allowance for temporary absence of one or two weeks during the Christmas recess, provided they retain their membership in the Hall. Claims for such allowance must be entered on books in the Auditor's office before leaving, and the weeks must begin on either December...