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Whatever the United States may attempt in the way of official remonstrance the pressing need now is to provide some relief for the half million whom the late ravages have left almost wholly destitute. This work of relief has been undertaken by the Red Cross in America and to make it effective it is necessary that at least $500.000 should be raised in a very brief time. To give Harvard students an opportunity to further such a noble cause, it was resolved last night that a committee of the Religious Unions should be appointed to receive subscriptions from the entire...
...special interest to know in what forms the property of our colleges, amounting to a hundred million of dollars, is invested. In presenting the facts I make use of reports sent to me from between one hundred and two hundred of the representative colleges, and also of reports of presidents and treasurers of these colleges. From these reports I infer that at last four-fifths of all the productive funds of the colleges are invested in bonds and mortgages. Few colleges, and a few only, have a part of their endowments in stocks of any sort. A few of them...
...Congress right in refusing to pay the Beaumarchais claim of one million livres...
...recognize these associations? It most certainly is. For laborers feel that they have been denied a right; feeling this, they are made hostile to capitalists; social disturbances, such as strikes and lock-outs are increased, and these are very costly to capitalists. The Chicago strike cost the laborers a million and a half of dollars, but it cost the managers four millions and a half. This fact has been recognized and it is generally the policy of managers in this country to recognize this. They have learned the lesson,- recognition and there is harmony; no recognition and there...
...erection of two additional buildings to the Vanderbilt clinic. He also stated that Mrs. W. D. Sloane, who was a Vanderbilt, and her husband, had subscribed $200,000 for the erection of an addition to the Sloane Maternity Hospital; and that two gentlemen had guaranteed the necessary half million dollars for the erection of two new buildings of Columbia College on Riverside heights. The gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt and his three brothers is in memory of their father, William H. Vanderbilt, who built the present Vanderbilt clinic. Cornelius Vanderbilt and his brothers will also defray the cost of equipping both...