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...otherwise it will be broken up. A dissolution of the Association would without doubt be a great calamity the price of board would immediately rise in all the boarding houses in Cambridge and many men would be forced to pay a price which they could but ill afford. To avert such a disaster is for the interest of a very large number of students and if they desire to protect themselves their proper course is to join the Association at once. Investigations which are being made seem to show that the affairs of the Association have been very poorly managed...
...research that plans were again drawn up for a Medical School building on a much larger scale than was necessary to meet the immediate need for larger quarters. These plans called for the acquisition of a tract of land sufficiently large to accommodate the proposed buildings and also to afford space for hospitals to be erected and conducted in close association with the School. Over 26 acres were secured situated in the outskirts of Boston bounded by Francis Street, Huntington Avenue and Longwood Avenue, and extending beyond Vila Street in a westerly direction...
There was also a last fling at "influences" as follows: "Party responsibility is not confined to its handling of governmental affairs. A political party must also be accountable to the people of the United States for the management of its internal affairs, and no political party can afford to accept the support of forces for which it refuses to accept responsibility...
...probable that our final cost [incurred due to the War] will run well toward $100,000,000,000, or half the entire wealth of the country when we entered the conflict. . . . We should like to have our Government debts all settled, although it is probable that we could better afford to lose them than our debtors could afford not to pay them...
...whose purses are lean almost to nothingness walk into charity clinics and hospitals where maladies are squelched free of charge, perhaps by these same specialists, always by adepts. But what of the man whose purse is merely modest? If his ills are complex he faces a dilemma. He cannot afford to consult leading medicos; he is generally too proud to accept charity service. What he would like is a clinic where fees proportionate to his income would be charged for the finest attention...