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Only a man who fails to comprehend what the abolishment of such an institution would mean will cast his vote against compulsory membership and the establishing of the Harvard Union on a firm financial basis...
...obvious argument that the Union fills an important place in the University has been further strengthened by the committee's report, which also advises that membership in the Union be made compulsory. Only by this measure can its financial condition be put on a firm basis. However, this is a change of such radical character, affecting every undergraduate, that it has been thought decidedly advisable to obtain the opinion of the college as a whole...
...necessary for him to have had the time to be a student,--to have probed to the truths of life for their own sake. This is the lesson of the college to the artist and to the musician, a desire to understand and to express life, and a firm conviction that what he is doing is worth while, whether it is recognized or not. This is the challenge which must be flung to those who are professionalizing art in this country as our business and even our sport is professionalized. And that lesson the College should teach well...
...Cole was born in London in 1852, and at five years of age came to New York with his father. He was apprenticed to the trade at sixteen, and after the Chicago fire left the firm of Bond & Chandler and found work for a short time with a New York periodical, called "Hearth and Home," before joining the "Christian Weekly." On the failure of Sutton's "Aldine Press" the late Alexander W. Drake called Mr. Cole into the service of the then "Scribner's Monthly," later known as the "Century Magazine." For the "Century" he has done the major part...
...organ which is to be dedicated is a beautifully made instrument of white mahogany. The makers were the well known firm of Hook and Hastings. Power is supplied by an electric motor, and there are two manuals and pedals. The tone is declared by experts to be exactly fitted to the acoustics of the hall. In technical phraseology, it is voiced for the size of the hall. The tone is also exceptionally good...