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...asking for gifts to satisfy their respective needs. Now Harvard has appointed a Harvard Endowment Fund Committee to raise ten million dollars. There is little question that both the College proper and the Graduate Schools are in need of additional income. At present the laboratory facilities are far from ideal for best instructing the large classes in physics and chemistry. Enough has been written already about the glaring deficiencies of the Hemenway Gymnasium. Although there are numerous new buildings that are needed at once, the scientific equipment for use in many of the graduate courses is not sufficiently modern...
...stands almost unique as an organization springing from the entire University. It was formed on a rising tide of national consciousness, and took its strength from the loyal and eager support of a thousand men. It is noteworthy as an inspiration, as a co-operative effort towards one common ideal, and as the active expression of the keen patriotism felt by the large body of Harvard undergraduates...
...beer and soggy biscuits were the breakfast food. The declining use of purchased literature perhaps means increasing dependence on the wonderful collection of books the University has made, and a general inclination to select the courses that are of a manual as well as mental nature, realizing the ideal of Dr. Eliot, who said that he would not rest content till most of the studies called on the student to use his hands as well as his head. --Philadelphia Public Ledger...
These things are highly pleasant, but they do not compose Christmas. They are no more Christmas than the small boy's ideal of a time when he receives the consummation of all his dreams, and eats more than a small boy should ever...
...fall and at about the present time there begins a determined and wide-spread hunt for suitable snap courses, or in other words courses that are supposed to yield a maximum amount of something in return for a minimum amount of nothing. The ideal course of this kind would be one which met once a year at the pleasure of the instructor, and it is certain that such a course, if over discovered, would with its members overflow any building in the University. The search for this ideal course goes on in the same way and in the same spirit...