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...third of a series of articles by the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee throws additional light on the subject of salaries paid by the University and the cost of living, and shows that an endowment fund is sorely needed to meet the increased price of necessities and to maintain the high standard of instruction in the University. The most important effect of the continued deficits in the expenditures of the University has been a reduction of the unrestricted capital funds, and the resulting policy of retrenchment by the Corporation, which has prevented the University from granting the teaching force increased salaries...
...indicated times, owing to recitations or laboratory work, are to report at 5 o'clock. No man will be kept on the training table and no man will be considered a candidate for it unless he reports at the time indicated. The track management has deemed it necessary to maintain such stringent rules, in order that the fullest efficiency may be attained through the system of practice at prescribed times...
...must maintain our intimacy with the past. We must develop scholars who will bring us into closer understanding of the glories and blunders of other civilizations, who will convince our youths that the past is stored with object lessons of great value now. However, a few years of required Latin in school will not help us on the road. For all have future scholars they will only serve to waste the energy which might have been thrown into the direct study of Rome herself, of the splendor of her institutions, and the greatness of her sons. By all means...
...trustees of the estate object to the use which the University is now making of the $5,500,000 already received by it, and maintain that the intention of Mr. McKay is being defeated by carrying on the engineering courses under the roof of Technology instead of in the buildings and under the sole direction of the University...
...dying over there; we are not going on any international joy ride. Those of us who have been among the people of the countries at war know that Harvard has done more than any other American university to help relieve the suffering in this war, and we must maintain that record...