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Considerable changes will be made in the Columbia college buildings early in the summer. The library has out-grown its quarters, the school of art needs more room, and the demands of the law school must be met. The old buildings in the centre will be removed and a handsome and commodious structure erected in their place...
This table gives a much fairer and, to Harvard, more favorable comparison of the growth of the universities. If this table is compared with the ones given in the Advocate for earlier years it will be seen how steadily and satisfactorily Harvard has grown in New York and the rest of the country...
...letter from a Yale alumnus under the heading "Where Reform is Needed at Yale." The writer was much alarmed lest "Yale democracy" should suffer seriously from the yearly increasing extravagance shown in conducting the Junior Promenade. "From the modest affair of ten years ago," he said, "this promenade has grown to an elaborate structure with numerous accessories to manage, enjoy, and recover from, which requires the time and energy of perhaps a third of the students for a week, while the pockets of many of them need the balance of the year for complete recuperation...
...than Harvard. Now the fact is that Yale started much ahead of Harvard in the west. In 1820 we did not have a single student from beyond the Alleghanies, while Yale had many from beyond the Hudson river and even from the Western Reserve. Since that time Harvard has grown faster than Yale in every way. Our constituency in the west has grown until at the present day there are very few more western men in New Haven than in Cambridge. In 1878, the year at which the statistics start, we had less western men than Yale, and the same...
...Wealth that has grown up under the sanction of the law, it is simply robbery to confiscate. (a) The unearned increment in land is not more hurtful to the community than other forms of unearned increment. (b) If the state would claim the benefit of unearned increase, it must in equity make good also undeserved losses.- Popular Science Monthly. vol. 30, pp. 511-2; Lippincott, January, 1887; Walker, Pol. Econ...