Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...almost universal consensus of hygienic opinion today is against eating houses that provide for their patrons no attractive rooms for pleasant social intercourse before and after the meals. "To chat and smile and wait awhile" instead of rushing in and out is now a rule of health for all self-respecting persons so widely recognized that no restaurant or dining room is considered well regulated that is not immediately connected with a pleasant social room...
Tickets for both courses of lectures may be procured by applying to the Curator of the Institute at Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston. One stamped self-addressed envelope should be enclosed for each ticket desired...
...Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The play is by two popular German playwrights, Blumenthal and Kadelburg, and has had very successful runs both in Germany and in this country. The plot of the farce centers about two national types, the antiquated German aristocrat and the self-made American business...
...weakness already suggested. The computers, judging others by themselves, by that method found an imposing total spent for luxuries, but regarded the individual basis as moderate. We must remember, however, that a great many of the Harvard men who make up the total number of registered students are self-supporting, in whole or in part. Most of these, certainly, do not spend ten to twelve dollars per week for board alone. Nor are they apt to spend appreciably, much less liberally, for the luxuries concerning which the discussion has centered. There is the further fact that many of them...
...obtained would, indeed, be very suggestive, were they supported by facts. What is worse, however, is that they by innuendo attribute to the student body as a whole habits of frivolity, luxury, indolence, and intemperance, for which there is no foundation in fact among the serious-minded, studious, and self-supporting. L. VOLD...