Word: various
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...occasions such as distributions of Yale game seats or appointments to various coveted positions, those in charge are besieged by a host of petitioners, each with his own little claim for preferment. In some cases these requests are deserving, but the great majority have the weakest grounds for appeal and are most persistent in their demands. In fact, they exaggerate their importance to such a degree that it is difficult to rate them at their true value. As a rule these men realize the insignificance of their claims, but hope to impose upon the good nature of the authorities...
...will give their annual concert at the Parker Memorial, Boston, tonight at 8 o'clock. The concert will be the last before the joint concert with Yale the night before the Harvard-Yale game. Admission tonight will be by invitation only, and invitations have been sent out by the various Houses connected with the South End Social Union. The affair will be in the nature of a house-warming, and there will be dancing after the concert...
...thousand of the medals have been struck in bronze, and many of them have already been sold at the various Harvard clubs throughout the country. There are a number left, however, and if there is a demand for more, fresh dies will be prepared from the original placque, and new medals will be struck...
...ideal class election is one which is attended by an overwhelming majority of the class; which excites a free discussion of the merits of the various candidates; and at which everyone shows his freedom from all previous affiliations, and casts his ballot for the man who seems to him best fitted to fill the office for which he has been nominated. Unfortunately, ideal elections are rare, but the practical obstacles are by no means insurmountable, and can be overcome gradually, if not at once...
Below is given a list of scholarships for the college year 1907-08 which have been awarded by the various Faculties of the University...