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...help ease its burden on Cambridge, Harvard and the City worked out a "gentlemen's agreement" at the time of the Harkness gift for the Houses. Since the University intended to take a good deal of land off the tax rolls to build Eliot and Dunster Houses, it decided to pay a sum "in lieu of taxes" on the property. One reason for this action was the Council's threat to halt Harvard's buying of high tax rate land along the river. The agreement has carried on and was renewed when the first Plan E Council took office...
Boot Spur cabin was built in 1938 by students with the help of an old trapper. Members claim the cabin's bedding facilities will house 24, but add that more can sleep on the somewhat damp ground floor. Since the U. S. Forestry Service requires the door to be always unlocked, many college groups use Boot Spur cabin. The H.M.C., however, asks each visitor to contribute 25 cents to the "kitty...
This and kindred myths (at their height in the 19305) have now begun to fray because they run counter to the American experience o-f the last nine years. Henry Steele Commager's book may help to finish the job, and to put the Civil War back where it belongs-in the center of the American story. With the war left out, the American character is incomprehensible, and dangerously so. In 1861 and in 1950, the American represented himself (and believed himself) as despising politics and loving comfort above all men. Yet the American has always been deeply political...
...present, Marshall is preparing his proposal with the help of the heads of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. He also has before him the plan presented by General Hershey's educational advisory committees (Trytten Plan) and the Conant program for U.M.S...
Harvard would seem the logical place to establish Roosevelt Scholarships; it is the university with which FDR had the closest ties, and it has a strong Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Harvard alumni and non-Harvard men who revere FDR could help to build international understanding by giving the money necessary to start these scholarships...