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...charge of the plans for the future development of the University, Mr. C. A. Coolidge '81 of the Board of Overseers, speaking at Robinson Hall Monday evening, placed special emphasis on the problems involved in arranging groups of buildings for the University, which has to a large extent grown up without any definite arrangement of its structures and which possesses traditions that forbid the destruction, unless absolutely necessary, of any existing monument to the past...
...native if we allow women to take part in our councils." General Byron, referring to the argument that women belong to the home and their husbands: "Men who talk like that are usually men who have had everything done for them by women when they were young, and have grown up to look upon them as reliable unpaid upper servants. Women are certainly different, but they are not inferior...
...visit to Palestine, condemns the Zionist movement as "an act of British folly." Describing a visit to Jerusalem, he says: "The sad little Zionist settlements are bankrupt; they live on foreign alms. They were built upon a fantastically uneconomic foundation. The opulent dreamers of an exiled Jewry have grown weary of pouring their donations into an insatiable soil of a thirsty land. Without the largesse of rich American and European Jews, Zionism cannot live an hour longer...
...daughter, the present Mrs. Reiner. The mother did not tell her daughter of this, but with a strange anxiety turned the child's bent toward singing, determined to realize in her the graces of song of which the child had deprived her. One day, when the girl was half grown, an angry maid taunted her bitterly with having caused the ruin of her mother's voice. Still mother and daughter could not bring themselves to speak of the theme that had been hidden, and the woman died with the silence unbroken. The daughter became a singer, but did not follow...
Similarly, there is no feud in this college between humanism and science, between the Classics and philosophy or the subjects that have grown out of philosophy as the ancients knew it. If a student would devote his main attention to a more recent part of the broad realm of human interests, and yet would examine its relations to antiquity, he will find programmes of concentration described in the official pamphlets whereby a study of the Classics may be combined with Philosophy or History or Government or Economics or Fine Arts as well as with Modern Literature. If his centre...