New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-21
COLUMBIA FINES TEACHERS
Those More than a Minute Late
at Meals Pay 10 Cents.
HAVE TO BE "MATR0NIZEO"
Some Don't Know What That
Means, and Others Who Do
Don't Want To.

Don't Want To.
During a moment OF inspiration Edgar
Allan Poe wrote some verses called ''fhe
Bells" which brought him more OF fame
than filthy lucre. Those who direct the
destinies Of the Teachers College Of Column
bia University may have drawn inspiration
from Mr.. Poes lines in adopting an ingeni-
Gus scheme TO reap little pin money or
they may not. That question is aside from
the main issue. so 10 speak
The fact remains that all young women
who were staying al Whittier Hall and
other dormitories Of the university during
its last summer session We're informed on
arrival that teachers as well as scholars
should cultivate promptness. THAT prompt
ness is great stuff" their nformants con-
tinued; there is nothing like IT.. and 10
help improve YOU in that respect We have
decided. al great Inconvenience and some
little expense 70 ourselves. 70 add O course
this year The new ticket is b A. Prompt
ness
There will be time keepers in each din
ing room; should you cross IT'S threshold
one minute after the music Of the ring
sound through these classic corridors you
will be forced 10 contribute ten cents 70 the
college. DO YOU get listen cents for each
and every separate and distinct Violation
Depositors Never Withdraw.
Now, many OF the young women did not
take 10 this new course. II peeved them to
have 10 become deDositors TO this new form
OF night and day dime savings bank Vheth-
or they wanted 10 or not. a bank run on a
system which has everything in Wall Street
licked a mile. for the depositors deposit
but never withdraw.
Hence with the juggling and the ringing Of
the bells came the sound of high French
heels In a wild scurry for the dining room.
Within the door stood the time keeper.
stop watch in hand. keeping time on the
late arrivals "Gl.2 seconds Iate-dime.
please. or, Lost by a step-ten centsr'-
such were the officials verdicts
This state Of perpetual dime contributing
began TO grow on the nerves Of the wom-
en-, young and old. and OF varying stages
Of beauty or lack Of f. The time keeper
could not be swerved from a strict sense of
his duty even by the most winning smile
Of the fairest Of them all. Sinister rumors
went floating around the corridors. Teach
ers were buttonhoied IN its byways and
asked in tremulous whispers whether they
had not noticed that that elevator man
had been slow in taking them down TO the
dining ROOM Calm heads charged these
statements up TO bias. and We're wont 70
acquit the man of conspiracy.
Then outcropped tales Of equally black
deeds. Was the tinekeeper working his
st0pwatch correctly" How do We know
his old watch keeps the right time any
hove" and so forth
The more courageous insisted that the
teachers ought 10 have an official timer
Of their own. over h0uoon boxes and AZ
fudge parties this suggestion was dis
cussed. its pros and cons were argued ar
length. bug. alas for the dime givers. they
had neither organization nor union. and.
besides talk, nothing was done.
Six Hundred Dollars in 1o-Cent Fines.
Tn all. teacher said. $500 had been coll
lected during the summer school IN this
way hut at the university yesterday the
person at the Office Of one Of the dorrnI-
tories said she thought that figure must
be an eVaEVeratiOn.
Rule 80. 10 FOR the guidance of those
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dld mean rneN said, they could never
find OUT. but be that as IL may. there was
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