Word: working
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principals, H. Woodruff '98, A. F. Riggs '98, and N. Perkins '98 do the bulk of the work and do it extremely well. Riggs is especially to be commended. He is on the stage from the beginning to the end, and does more to keep things going lively than any other man in the cast. By the aid of an aweinspiring make-up he looks and acts the part of General Bluff most successfully...
...good many years the adherents of Harvard and Yale have been familiar with the discussion of a statement of obscure origin, to the effect that though the admission requirements of Harvard College are confessedly higher than those of Yale College, the work of students in pursuing an academic course toward the degree of Bachelor of Arts ends in disappointment less often at Harvard than at Yale. The statement is commonly made in the form-"It is harder to get into Harvard College than into Yale, but once admitted, it is easier to stay there." The statistics printed below would seem...
...credit. The first interesting comparison is in the number of men of the firet kind,- "dropped" freshmen. The large number of these men at Harvard shows the strict discipline of our college office, but is partly accounted for by our elective system which allows a man to divide his work unequally among the four years, if he desires, although at an increased risk of being temporarily dropped a class if he fails...
...Work has been started on the speedway and river drive across the Soldiers Field marshes. A railroad has been laid to be used in the operations and three dredging machines are now removing the material from the Charles, with which the dike and drives are to be built. A gang of men is putting down a system of piping to drain the marshes back of the dike...
...University Club Committee makes the following report of its plans and its work up to date. The work of collecting information to be distributed among graduates in pamphlet form has just been completed but the war events of course render it inadvisable to send out any appeal at present...