Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot is to make several addresses and take a trip to New York and Lakeville, Conn., during the latter part of this week. This evening he will address the Maine Club on "Returning to Maine after College" in the Trophy Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. He will give an informal talk at a dinner of the alumni of the English High School at Young's Hotel on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. On Friday the President is to speak in New York before the Public Educational Association on "The Improvement of School Committees or Boards...
...safely sacrificed on this schedule, but some reduction can and should be made here. Two schedules which have caused considerable trouble have been practically eliminated. Hereafter the golf team and the tennis team must hold their intercollegiate championships before College opens in the fall instead of the first week of the term as formerly. This is a big improvement and causes a large reduction in the absences from Cambridge...
...October the number of boarders on the "fish and egg" system averaged 800. The average total cost of board to each of them was $5.96 per week. Granting, as those who ate it and even those who provided it will, that this was too high, how much of it shall we blame on the "transients"? The opponents of the latter system say eighty cents per week. We will take their figures. 800 men then paid 80 cents per week too much, total $640, to be divided among the guilty transients and borne by them. A week's board, 21 meals...
...Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, of New York. Seats on the floor will be reserved until 7.25 o'clock for members of the University and friends accompanying them. The gallery will be open to the public at 7 o'clock. Rev. Professor Francis G. Peabody will conduct morning prayers next week...
...third Vesper service of the year will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Appleton Chapel. The preacher will be Professor Francis G. Peabody '69, D.D., who will conduct morning prayers during this and next week. The musical program follows: "The Great day of the Lord," Martin; "The people that walk in darkness," from the Messiah, Handel; "Great is Jehovah," Mozart. The soloist will be D. M. Babcock '77. Front seats will be reserved for members of the University until 4.55 o'clock...