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...will bring out capabilities in sustained work and rebuttal. The final step in this weeding out process in its character of a regular debate, is calculated to be a sure test both of ability in presentation and rebuttal. On the whole then although the plan may need modification in certain details, it promises to justify itself in furnishing training, in bringing out the different sides of the question, and at last in ensuring the choice of the best...
...time there had been some recognized outline for the development of even the Yard property, the Corporation would have been able to say; "if your building comes up to certain specifications we will give you such and such a site, otherwise it is impossible to make you any promises." No doubt when they made the promise the Corporation had some site in mind for a $300,000 structure such as Brooks House was purposed to be; now they feel that to give a $50,000 building such a site would be a waste of needed ground, and they are therefore...
...fact that the Corporation have certain definite ideas as to the future possibilities of the property, but since few know what they are, the frequent criticism is that the Corporation have nothing in mind but questions of present economy and convenience. We should therefore urge that some plan for the development of the present property be publicly adopted. Then if future bequests or the conditions on which money is given should render it expedient to depart from this plan, opportune rather than tardy criticism would be insured and greater forethought exercised...
...Advocate out today is the last issue of the '98 board. Beyond that body's graceful farewell, there is nothing noticeable in the editorials but another variation, hardly original, upon a certain out-worn theme that the college as a whole wants to leave alone...
...afforded between this proposed avenue and Quincy street. Further, Messrs. Olmstead and Eliot made a plan for the disposition of Conant and Perkins Halls on Holmes Field and for the property in that immediate neighborhood. The buildings were placed, however, further out on Oxford street. The Corporation have reserved certain areas for library extension or other precise uses, but for the most part each new building has been considered as a unit, and has been placed perhaps where its donor or architect suggested with a view to making that special building as effective as possible...