Word: students
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more hard-hearted but equally cogent suggestion is made by Julius H. Barnes, speaking for the Institute for Public Service. The college tuition fee does not represent more than a small part of what each student costs the institution, being kept at a merely nominal figure so that a liberal education may be within the means of poor, and even of self-supporting, students. As a result, sons of the moderately well-to-do, and even of the rich, receive what, in effect, is a gratuity. That is one of the many anomalies of democratic institutions. Mr. Barnes suggests that...
...plan instituted two years ago for broadening thought within the College has proved itself a success. The discussion group system has spared many undergraduates the mistake of totally burying themselves in their own activities; for while the region between the Peabody Museum and the Stadium holds for the Harvard student perhaps more life and interest than any other spot, it unfortunately covers but a small area...
Almost every student in the University knows to his inconvenience that the subway entrance in front of the Waldori is now closed, despite the fact that it is prominently labelled "To Boston." Now that we have to pay a dime for an eight minute ride to town, we ought at least to have the facilities offered by the former nickel fare. Moreover, I am sure that residents in the vicinity will appreciate action by the students to have the entrance reopened. Can't we get in touch with 131 Milk street and have our needed accommodations restored? HAROLD W. CONNOLLY...
...Spread held last June for men who do not spread elsewhere was unqualified success. In the latter part of June sixty men spent ten days at North-field in conference with delegations from other eastern colleges. Brooks House itself was open all summer for the use of Summer School students, and magazines and writing facilities were provided for them. Twenty-five hundred Freshman Handbooks were printed and distributed this fall. The Information Bureau, now the official Bureau for the University, has been open daily including Sunday from September 8th to the present time, and has been of incalculable service...
...straw vote on the ratification of the peace treaty today, will be regarded everywhere as the real opinion of Harvard. In view of this fact the student body should refuse to allow itself to be misrepresented...