Word: short
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...BUSHNELL, Sec.PIERIAN SODALITY.- Important rehearsal tonight. Prompt and complete attendance is absolutely necessary. Rehearsal must begin at 7 o'clock sharp, and will be followed by a short business meeting. Concert tomorrow in Boston...
...BURLEY, Capt.BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW.- Rev. W. B. King will give a short, informal talk at the regular meeting of the Brotherhood tonight at 7 o'clock in Grays 17, on the Prayer Book. All Brotherhood men and all others interested are cordially invited...
There was published in today's CRIMSON a communication attacking a plan suggested a short time ago for the support of the projected infirmary. This plan was to provide an adequate yearly income for the infirmary by making an additional charge of $5.00 upon the term bill of each student. The arguments used against it were based upon the fact that under such a system the many would be paying for the few; that there are many who go home in case of illness, a number who, having plenty of money, would prefer not to go to the infirmary...
...trouble with this as with all voluntary schemes would be, that feeling no present need of an infirmary the majority of students would not take the trouble to join the association, and the Corporation, having nothing to count on, would have to over-charge non-members or run short for the year. Even if successful, would not the same objection hold true here as in the $5.00 a year scheme? Here again the majority would be obviously paying the expenses of the minority, and in any case under such a system the infirmar would always be under the disadvantage...
...doing he benefits a fellow student. There is another point which very few men realize, and this is that, were it not for the income the Corportion derives from its private property, the charges now made for tuition and for rooms in the college buildings would fall very far short of a sum sufficient for the yearly expenses of the University. Indeed, I have heard on good authority that for each $150 Harvard receives from a student's tuition fee, she expends $400. Thus every Harvard man is deeply in debt to his Alma Mater, and he should in turn...