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...position of sufficiently equal terms to compete with Yale, on account of lack of facilities to build up a team. Swimming was entirely abolished as a sport in the University in 1910. The construction of the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank, however, has made it possible to re-establish swimming...
...second ground of objection, the complainant tried to show that the applicants, as students deriving their support wholly or in part from their parents, were not domiciled in Cambridge. The third ground of objection was that the absence from Cambridge during the summer vacation prevented the applicants from establishing the necessary residence. It is with reference to the last two points that the case is of interest to Harvard students. In each of the cases in which registration was granted, the applicant presented evidence to show that he was wholly or in part self-supporting, and that he was free...
...would seem that these facts pretty clearly establish the conditions under which men may expect to secure registration as voters in Cambridge, under the Board's present interpretation of the registration laws...
...duty of American colleges to take up the work of advancing the world's scholarship with greater seal than ever. In the case of Harvard this calls for the strengthening of the equipment of certain departments. A substitute for Boylston Hall is needed; the Economics Department needs money to establish research fellowships; the Library needs an endowment. In spite of the great building expansion just competed, more money is needed. And it is hoped that benefactors of mankind in the largest and most international sense will respond...
...death of Dean Thayer, singularly enough, came at the close of hundred years of law instruction in the University. On September fourth, 1815, the Corporation voted to establish the Royal all Chair of Law and appointed Isaac Parker to fill it; and two years later a law school was organized as a separate department. From this small beginning the School grew through penury and even opposition to some strength and influence, as the name of Judge Story on its Faculty amply shows. It gave system and dignity to the otherwise disorganized study of law in ante-bellum days...