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...more and more assured. This year the Corporation has decided to put the membership dues, which are nominal, on the regular term bill. This has long been desired by the undergraduates, and now every undergraduate ought to respond to the spirit in which Major Higginson gave us this great gift, and feel that the place where all Harvard men can come together on terms of absolute equality and brotherhood is the place in which all Harvard men should have a part...
About a year ago the Committee was called upon to face a new situation. It is a futile waste of time to discuss now the wisdom of building the Stadium. Few, at least of the undergraduates, would maintain that the gift of the class of '79 should have been refused by the Committee, not to say the Corporation, on account of the additional expense it has entailed. Thanks to this expense, and to the feeling of the Committee that one of its first duties is to pay its debts as rapidly as is well possible, our surplus has practically disappeared...
...ever to arrive at any ideal state we have still been of the opinion that there are many inherent obstacles to the right sort of intercourse which are capable of eradication. I remember how we set going Freshmen receptions some years ago, and how we welcomed Mr. Higginson's gift of the Union as tending to remove these obstacles. These things like the special efforts now being made for frequent smokers and other large informal gatherings are evidences of the general feeling that has existed for a long time, and are worthy attempts. But they...
...University has just received a gift of $50,000 from Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, of New York, for the purpose of carrying on an excavating expedition in Palestine during the next five years for the benefit of the Semitic Museum. $10,000 will be used each year to meet the running expenses of the expedition, and an additional $5,000 has been given by Mr. Schiff for its equipment and organization...
...Another gift to the University, of $100,000, from an anonymous benefactor has been announced for the endowment of the Department of the Ethics of Social Questions, on the condition that it shall be named the Francis Greenwood Peabody Endowment Fund. The significance of the gift is that it ensures the permanence of the courses of instruction in social and economic questions from the standpoint of ethics, the object for which Professor Peabody has made such memorable efforts during his professorship in the University...