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Below is a list of officers of all branches of sport under the direction of the Athletic Committee, who are entitled to a vote in the election of the three undergraduate members of the committee. The elections will be held during the first week in June. Any corrections in the list should be sent at once to Mr. A. H. Weed, secretary of the Athletic Committee...
There are eight notable evils of city government in this country today. First is an evil not peculiar to the city, but having a deeper effect there than elsewhere--the spoils system. In cities even the laborers and mechanics are employed in return for their vote. By padding the city payrolls additional places are found for friends of the administration. Competency is immaterial in appointments under the spoils system, so that there is an utter absence of it in the administration of the city departments. There is no discipline, because each member of a force owes his appointment to someone...
During the dinner hour in Memorial Hall last night, R. L. Groves '10, of Coudersport, Penn., was elected president of the Harvard Dining Association by a vote of 287. M. C. Leckner 1L., the other nominee, received 226 votes...
Gentlemen:--I hereby acknowledge receipt of Combination Engine and Hose Wagon, with a pair of horses and harnesses for said horses, the same being the gift to the City of Cambridge by vote of the President and Fellows of Harvard College on March 13, 1906; which gift was accepted in behalf of the City of Cambridge by vote of the City Council, approved by the Mayor, on October...
...rejecting the pending vote, the Athletic Committee decides that there are more imminent questions than that of curtailment to be dealt with, then a very great obligation devolves upon each man whose name appeared upon the petition. He has pledged himself to remember that athletics are not his chief aim in life; and to attend strictly to the duties prescribed by the College authorities. We must hear no more complaints about empty class-rooms on the days of big games, and there must be no more cause for the well-founded objections to "vacations of recuperation." The maintenance of athletics...