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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number accommodated by these buildings, and that for those who apply for a double suite for two the cost will be exactly double what it would be with two men to each room. Neither of these objections, however, is as serious as it seems, for, as a general thing, at least one-third of the rooms in Hollis and Stoughton are occupied by one man only, so that the number accommodated will by no means be cut in half; and as to the expense, men need not apply for two rooms as a double suite unless they so desire. This...
...most distinguished thing in the current number of the Advocate is Mr. J. M. Moore's description of the Summer School at Harvard. All the accounts of the Summer School I have read hitherto have been more or less marred by a tone of condescension and ridicule. Perhaps the facts make this inevitable; but one cannot help regretting that the Harvard of the winter terms comes so near incurring the charge of being something less than gentlemanly in its attitude towards its sister of the summer. This unfortunate tone is not altogether lacking in Mr. Moore's sketch...
...some former years ruined all class unity and life after graduation. The next speaker, A. Gregg, praised the new method in that it enabled men to have some sincere reason for rooming in the Yard and did away with the custom of applying simply because it was a thing generally done by most of the class. P. D. Smith, denying the general opinion that friends are not made during Senior year, said that great reliance may be placed in the hearty favor of our greatest graduate; President Lowell, who is doing so much to unify the College and do away...
...teams in the minor sports. But it is enough to indicate that the strained relations following the break of 1905 are becoming less tense. Athletic quarrels between great universities have something very absurd about them; we hope that the time may come when they will be altogether a thing of the past...
...have something to do with the apparent absence of insect enemies of the two above-named species. For the spraying of the trees could have easily killed their parasites, which might have been lurking about on the trees at the time the spray- ing was done. And one thing that favors this theory is,--the leopard moth is worst in that part of the Yard which was the most carefully sprayed...