Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which has taken place since the Civil War. This is partly due to the great immigration--sixteen and one-half millions in the same period. With overcrowding, and the influx of a body of people unused to free government, has come a depreciation of the intelligence of the suffrage, still further lowered by the creation of a class of industrial operatives whose task of monoto- nously repeating one small operation requires but small intellect...
Seniors are again requested to mail their class "Lives" to Box D at once. This request has been made continuously since January, yet nearly 300 men are still delinquent. The only remaining method of obtaining these "Lives" is personal solicitation by the secretary and his assistants. It will be seen at once what a task this is; and we accordingly urge that every man who has not mailed his "Life" will do so immediately in order to lighten the undertaking as much as possible...
...Freshman baseball team easily defeated Stone's School in a loosely played game yesterday by a score of 11 to 1. Ohler pitched well for the Freshmen, allowing only three hits, and Twitchell played well at third base. The team is still weak at the bat, but the fielding was excellent...
With the more inclusive party clubs the situation also demands meetings. With their important activities still to come, it is only fair to the members that they be given a chance to complete their organization and to instruct their officers in regard to plans for the coming campaign. In behalf of the members of these clubs we suggest that meetings be called sometime before the close of the present term...
...still have an antiquated custom here at Harvard, which has very little to recommend its continuance save its antiquity. We refer to the ringing of the College bell every morning at 7 o'clock. In most instances the College authorities have allowed the students to regulate their personal habits in their own way, but in this case there is a notorious exception. The mode of life at the University has so changed in recent years that most students find no occasion whatever for rising before 8 o'clock. Why, then, should those who live within sound of this bell...