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None the less, Harvard cannot afford to maintain the school, successful as it undoubtedly is, under existing conditions; and the Corporation has rightly decided that those who are to benefit by it must come to its support. If the Business School really fulfils its purpose, this action on the part of the University will not decrease the demand for the training it offers, but will bring about a more effective operation of the school, especially if the much needed new building is obtained...
Education leads to better hygienic conditions, and the degree of civilization existing in the United States has been the means of keeping us comparatively free from epidemics traceable to unsanitary methods of living. However fortunate we have been in the past, we cannot now afford to relax our vigilance against future peril. Two deaths have been reported in New York City, the first fatalities resulting from the typhus since 1892; health officials at that city have detected scores of vermin-bearing immigrants admitted through the port of Boston. Although the co-operation of the Italian Health Service shows important progress...
...British Empire can afford to provide material for the dastardly campaign of the Hearst organs or forget that the soldiers of the United States, of Great Britain and of Canada were comrades in arms in the Armageddon of the ages. If they could die together, surely we can live together in amity, in mutual respect, in common endeavor to make the world safer and happier for the generations of the future. "Wild tongues which have not Thee in awe" are the devil's advocates for the "lesser breeds without the law." In the British nations there is neither lust...
Besides being of great general interest to everyone, these talks will afford an exceptional opportunity to anyone who is thinking of teaching in the Near East to get first-hand information on the subject from men qualified to give...
...emphatic way Mr. Nothwang's beliefs that "Harvard is generally admitted to be an aristocratic school," that "Harvard students come from the two highest classes, the idle rich, and the rich professional class which serves the rich", and that "certain distinguished Harvard professors of undoubted aristocratic lineage could well afford to be democratic in theory". The communication, signed "H. Payne Whitney, Jr., Harvard 1921", stated that "less than 15 percent of Harvard students come from homes of more than ordinary wealth...