Word: small
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Association, which is designed to help students in the University to furnish their rooms at small cost, loans furniture at a yearly rental of 10 per cent. of its value. Every student leasing furniture is obliged to pay the yearly rent in advance, and must deposit a sum of money, ordinarily $2.50, as a partial guarantee of its return in good condition. Though the primary purpose of the Association is to be of use to students who find it necessary to exercise strict economy, any student in the University may apply for furniture...
...purpose of the library to have copies of all the books used in all the courses in the University, and to have two or more of the books most commonly needed. These books may be borrowed by any member of the University upon the deposit of a small sum, which is refunded when the books are returned...
...Outlooks" is continued by Mr. C. G. Osborne, who seeks in a larger loyalty to the University a remedy for the subdivision of interests which splits students up into groups on-grossed in their own pursuits and neither knowing nor caring about those of their fellows, and for the small rivalries of cliques and clubs. This spirit will be fostered by the prevalence of the idea "that Harvard is a little nation striving against other nations, and that, as such, she requires the support of all her citizens"--which a cynic might perhaps call the Ishmaelite conception of a University...
...fitness of the Union for such a memorial. It is firmly established as an important factor in undergraduate life. There is less need to urge a hearty response to any call for subscriptions which may be made. Every man in the University should be glad to do his small part toward bringing future classes into closer touch with the memory of a man who gave to Harvard the best years of a singularly valuable life, and who won the love as well as the respect of countless undergraduates...
...score was 16 to 14. All Lampy's bombs, jeers, kicks, jokes (?), beer, cheers, and bean blowers were of no avail before the cool experts of the pride of American journalism. Nothing could overtax the nerve of the men who had braved the terrors of Memorial Hall's fishballs. Small fry from the streets cheered for their witty brothers, drank with them, blew beans for them, fired dreadful paper salutes for them. Dainty litterateurs from the attic of the Union nobly stood by their side when they thought Lampy was winning...