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...Museum is greatly in need of funds and enlarged quarters. Since the death of its founder, Professor Agassiz, the Museum has more than doubled in size, but its endowment has remained stationary. A marine laboratory, and the completion of the wing devoted to the Peabody Museum, with a small section of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, are needed. In order to keep up with the progress of science a larger income must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report of the Museums. | 1/16/1897 | See Source »

Another plan which has been proposed is that of forming a student's aid association to divide the infirmary expenses of its members. The trouble with this as with all voluntary schemes would be, that feeling no present need of an infirmary the majority of students would not take the trouble to join the association, and the Corporation, having nothing to count on, would have to over-charge non-members or run short for the year. Even if successful, would not the same objection hold true here as in the $5.00 a year scheme? Here again the majority would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/15/1897 | See Source »

...many of them might be better able to pay for what they really received than some of those who were paying for them. I do not mean by these arguments to cry down the project of an infirmary; the experience of past years has shown our urgent need of one only too well. Would it not be better and fairer, however, if each man paid for what he received? The charges would be very reasonable as paying expenses would be the only object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/14/1897 | See Source »

...these reasons the nine and the Mott Haven team should be allowed to use Holmes Field at least another year. If at any time the welfare of the University demands the ground occupied by the diamond and the track for purposes nearer to the aims and needs of Harvard, athletics should willingly be removed. But as yet no immediate need for the ground has been made known to the undergraduates at large. Until such a need is shown, the nine and the track team should be unmolested and should be allowed to build all necessary grandstands on Holmes Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/14/1897 | See Source »

...vicinity along Atlantic Avenue. It has always been hard heretofore to make any lasting effect on the sailors because the work of Sundays has not been supplemented by any other means; the work has been desultory. It is thought that, by means of the work during the week, this need may be fulfilled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sailor Mission. | 1/8/1897 | See Source »