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George Foot Moore, "Professor in this University of the history of religion, scholar, preacher, teacher, and author, and in every function an exact, erudite, wise, and fertile thinker...
...function of paper money and of the banker is of course to facilitate the exchange of commodities and the payment of labor services. Commerce is carried on by credit and the means it has devised, such as checks, drafts and bills of exchange, while it is the banker who renders credit most effective. It is certain that 80 per cent, of the world's business is transacted by credit, while cash is used only for small payments, such as the adjustment of balances and the payment of wages. The larger possibilities of the system are trammelled by the law that...
...first the idea seemed to be to make the Union a great social club, modelled on the private clubs already existing, only more open and non-exclusive. But it was soon discovered that this was not its function; its membership was not sufficiently cohesive the common bond was not strong enough for its size and heterogeneousness. However, we were not satisfied to make the Union a mere meeting place for mass meetings, class smokers, debating clubs, committees and various other bodies. We wished to make it the great "hearth-stone of Harvard," a great centralizing force which should form...
...showed to what possibilities the Union was open on this side of our social life. This idea has been extended to the Class Day festivities. The Class Day Spread and Dance in the Union is not only a pleasure in itself the Union being particularly adapted for such a function, but it will also greatly relieve the usually overcrowded condition of Memorial Hall and Hemenway Gymnasium on Class...
...applied science now carried on by the University. It is the firm intention of the University to give the largest possible fulfillment to this great trust, in continuation of its already established policy whereby training for the industrial and engineering professions is recognized as a necessary and permanent function of the University. A person entering Harvard University as a student in applied science, shortly before the large benefits of the McKay bequest begin to accrue, might look forward to enjoying those benefits before his graduation, with the positive assurance that if any scheme of co-operation or alliance were agreed...