Word: statement
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...proposed alliance between the University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and to make clear the limits within which the University is prepared to discuss any cooperative agreement, a Harvard graduate who is qualified to speak for those in favor of alliance with the Institute has made the following statement as his interpretation of Harvard's attitude on the subject...
...Membership dues, (one- half annual), 11,090.00 Rent, 2,520.00 Care of rooms, 111.50 Rent of bed-rooms, 188.75 Interests on Deposits, 85.74 Miscellaneous, 61.42 Expenses. Current, $12,549.85 General, 2,590.35 Library, 524.96 Total receipts, $43,820.44 Net loss, 3,981.00 $47,801.44 $47,801.44 LOSS AND GAIN STATEMENT. Dining room: Receipts, $26,699.85 payments, 29,287.67 Loss, $2,587.82 Lunch Counter: Receipts, $1,148.85 Payments, 1,508.54 Loss, $191.22 Cigar Counter: Receipts, $1,914.33 Payments, 1,508.54 Gain, $405.79 House: Receipts, $14,057.41 Payments, 15,664.16 Loss, $1,606.75 GENERAL SUMMARY. Loss in restaurant, $2,587.82 Loss...
...sixty-cent dinner has lately been instituted and seems to have met with the approbation of all the men using the restaurant, and although it is rather early to make any definite statement, there is no reason why it should prove any greater expense to the Union than the seventy-five-cent dinner. In the case of the restaurant it must be borne in mind that the question is merely how little the loss can be made...
...comes to college with the intention of working, and should not be adapted merely to the man whose only aim is to spend his four years of college life as enjoyably as possible. The affirmative requires much more convincing proof than the negative has brought forward, to accept the statement that because the elective system has failed at Harvard it will necessarily fall in all other colleges
...substitute small, interested classes for large, uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history of the system, however, bears out Professor Munsterberg in his statement in "American Traits," that two-thirds of the elections are haphazard, controlled by accidental motives. In 1903 the Committee on Improvement of Instruction reported that the average amount of study was discreditably small, and that there was a constant increase of men willing to avoid work by the use of printed notes and "seminars...