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...argued, on the ground that about 40 per cent. of Harvard men live in Massachusetts and enjoy the municipal advantages and improvements of Cambridge. The principle of this plan has a great significance since it will acknowledge the justice of taxing college property and will be a step toward direct and complete taxation...
...committee is to act as a medium between students who wish to do charitable work, and settlements in Boston where such work needs to be done. Mr. Robert A. Woods has been engaged by the committee to consult with men wishing to do philanthropic work and to direct them where they had best direct their efforts...
...very refreshing to hear an economist say that the principal thing on which he relies in carrying out his work of leading Yale University is the sentiment of graduates. He has not ignored the practical side, as abundant direct passages and frank statements testify, but he declares without qualification that the sentiment of the graduates of Yale is the most important support which the leader of Yale can have in carrying out the most important work of Yale. This is just as true a statement as it is an unexpected one for an executive to make. Let this always...
...Abbot '55, secretary of the building committee, spoke on the history of the building. The subscriptions for erecting it were purely voluntary and came from all parts of the world. Two-thirds of them were from people who had no direct association whatsoever with Phillips Brooks, but who were touched by his enthusiasm as a reformer and wished to perpetuate this feeling. The fund was originally $70,468.54; but with the addition of interest it grew to $70,478.98. The building when complete with fixings and furniture will cost about $65,000, which will leave an endowment...
...colleges to create exclusiveness by artificial means. Something less magnificent is needed. Now, in view of the fact that the present style of fence has met the approval of many generations since the founding of the College, it is clear that a radical departure in style would be in direct violation of one of our oldest traditions. What is needed, then, is a slight improvement in permanency and looks over the present fence. Of styles that might not be too radical may be suggested a modest stone wall three or four feet in height, which in time...