Word: summer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Summer improvements in the University plant were centred chiefly in Holyoke House, where an electric passenger elevator running up through the old stair well and a system of hot water heating have been installed. Additional lights in the corridors, remodelled bathrooms, and a complete renovation of all the rooms have still further changed the interior of the building and have put it on a par with Little's Block for convenience of location and accommodations in the rooms. On the Massachusetts Avenue side of the building new double sashes have been added to the windows to lesson noise from...
Prof. Merriman reviews the work of the summer quarter in the University, including chiefly the reorganization of the Bussey Institution. Facts pertaining to the life of undergraduates during the month of June are set forth by the student editor. An account of the Class Day exercises takes up most of the space, as being the most important event of the past quarter...
Contrary to the custom of the past few years, neither Memorial Hall nor Randall Hall will be in operation during the six weeks' session of the Summer School. It is unfortunate that no arrangement can be made whereby one of the halls can be used to accommodate the summer students but the losses incurred in past years have been so great that it seems out of the question...
...Last summer, there were never more than 300 men taking their meals at Memorial and as a result the fixed charges were extremely high. Whereas under the present arrangement an initial charge is made of something between thirteen and fourteen cents, figured on the report of March 1, the charges last summer were nineteen cents a meal before any food was served. Apparently it is impossible to cut down the help and the running expenses in proportion as the numbers decrease since a certain number of assistants are required regardless of the number of persons served...
...Jester," a story or little drama in verse of a jester who would be more than a fool. Mr. Rogers is steadily gaining skill in expression; many of his lines have a swing which one remembers, such as this: "A ruined chateau, a terrace, a garden, a summer breeze...