Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...edict fixing the rate for meals on a railway dining car at $1.25 a plate. Hence the moderately wealthy Californian will no longer need to embark on a four-days' fast when he comes east to college. We are glad for his sake. And even those of us who take but short trips are interested in the new regulation, especially in the particular clause that stipulates that the food shall "be worth the price." This introduces an entirely new note into the customarily dull drone of decrees and legislation...
...Thayer '81, who is in charge of the celebration here, announced that Percy MacKaye '97 will read a poem written for the occasion; President Eliot, and Professor Bliss Perry will give addresses and Professor Copeland will read. Mr. Thayer is to give the introductory address. The ceremony will take place at Sanders Theatre on the evening of Feb. 22, at 8 o'clock...
Trials for the 1922 Debating team will take place in Sever 11, tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. Five minute speeches should be prepared on either side of the question: "Resolved: That the United States should prohibit the immigration of unskilled labor for four years." This will also be the subject for the Freshman triangular debate with Yale and Princeton on March...
Colonel Goetz emphasized especially the fact that the coming R. O. T. C. will be different from that of the past in that it will not interfere with other studies and activities but will be a group of academic courses, and that it will take for granted as far as possible that the principles of infantry drill, interior guard duty and small arms firing will have been previously learned...
...second beginning of a college year has also occasioned a double expense, which must be met by funds which are raised in the collection conducted this week. Men who contributed last fall will not be solicited again unless they desire to contribute, but every man in the University should take advantage of the opportunity which will be offered to him by the collector who visits...