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Uncle Joe in those days was Speaker of the House and supreme dictator of the Old Guard. Never did a man employ the office of Speaker with less regard for its theoretical impartiality. To Uncle Joe the Speakership was a gift from heaven, immaculately born into the Constitution by the will of the fathers for the divine purpose of perpetuating the dictatorship of the standpatters in the Republican Party. And he followed the divine call with a resolute evangelism that was no mere voice crying in the wilderness, but a voice that forbade anybody else...
...additional gift by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Robinson of New York in memory of Nelson Robinson Jr. '00 is being used to enlarge the libraries of both the School of Architecture and the School of Landscape Architecture by the addition of balconies. This expansion has become necessary by the growth of the schools and the increased size of the collections of books...
...anonymous gift of $200 has been received by the School of Architecture. This sum will be divided into ten prizes of $20 each to be given to the five best projects in Advanced Architectural Design 4c and the five best in Intermediate Architectural Design 4b, in a contest which begins today and closes on March...
Yale's magnificent new gift, from an anonymous donor, of seven hundred and fifty acres of woodland on the outskirts of New Haven, stands out in refreshing contrast to the members of half-given or useless legacies which are the bane of education today, embarrassing the beneficiaries as much as they inflate the names of the benefactors. Although it has been said that over half the title of college president is the office of continually passing the hat; it is more and more becoming the fashion for a captain of industry to justify his gains by largesse thrown...
Very few men in their Senior year can sit down and write out a substantial check to the Class fund. The gift must be in the nature of a dividend on the future, but it is a dividend that no one will begrudge...