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...lees significant. The Graduate School is of a nature to show the effects of a depression in the country more than any other department in the University. The men who study there are generally concerned with obtaining special culture in some branch of learning for its own sake, or else are concerned with making themselves fitted to teach. The number of men who can afford the money and time for the first of these objects is apt to be cut down seriously by a general financial depression, and men of the second class are, as a rule, limited in means...
...yesterday afternoon were opened by the Glee Club, which sang two verses of "America." Major Henry L. Higginson then made a few remarks, dwelling chiefly on the sad fortune of the women who sent husbands, brothers and lovers to the war only to lose them for their country's sake...
...right in persistently pursuing a do-nothing policy. If students should adopt a permanent arrangement at Memorial, the Corporation owe it to them, in that case, to make clear that such arrangement is urged in order to make feasible a second hall and not simply for its own sake, leaving the second hall still only a remote possibility. The Corporation ought explicitly to state to the directors of Memorial that, if a satisfactory permanent method can be found, and if requisite funds can be made available, a second hall will be built at once. If either side declines...
...given is ordinarily not reserved for specified individuals; it is given freely to persons with whom the donors have no previous connection. In a word, scholarships are a result of an interest in the general welfare. They are investments of the community,-the sacrifice of one generation for the sake of a future generation...
...Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look in on Catiline in council with his fellow conspirators, or Guy Fawkes in the cellar of St. Stephen's. We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society. Did it ever occur to them that there is a select society of all the centuries to which they and theirs can be admitted for the asking, a society, too, which will not involve them in ruinous expense...