Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Committee Appointed to Visit the Library have made their report to the Board of Overseers and in it recommend that an entirely new building be constructed. It may be constructed in sections, if necessary, but on no account should it contain portions of old buildings in its completed form. Briefly, their recommendation is to do away with the old building, and to erect on its site a much larger building which, when completed, will form four sides of a square. The front and principal entrance is to face Appleton Chapel. The east and west sides will extend from the facade...
...develop latent powers, to become acquainted with orchestral methods, and to play both pieces of a purely popular character, and works of the master-composers. Past members will testify that work in the Orchestra is equivalent to a course in music; members of the Faculty are eager to recommend the Pierian to everyone interested in music as a pastime or as an art. The Orchestra offers Freshmen, especially, a splendid opportunity to meet fellows of their own and upper classes; in no University activity are men more drawn together than when rehearsing and playing under the same leader...
Fourth, this club recommend that the Mayor appoint a committee representative of the city government, of Harvard University, and of the citizens of Cambridge at large to consider the great interests of the city for the more suitable arrangement of streets about and approaches to the College grounds...
...opponents, a system which puts too much strain on the student; the average man is not yet fit to bear the responsibility. Still, they admit its value in theory. Therefore, being, as it is, an advance on an ancient and artificial scheme to prevent cheating, it should immediately recommend itself to the less conservative and more progressive elements at Harvard...
Already, through personal and general discursion, it has become evident that the new plan does not recommend itself to a large number of men. To allow the daily papers or other parties apparently interested in the intellectual welfare of Harvard to boldly compile the inevitable statistics obtainable from hitherto very private sources, appears to some men little short of a betrayal of a sacred trust on the part of the College authorities. But such is not the case. The office is bound by no agreement relative to the publicity of a man's true academic standing. It is an accepted...