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Such a college must require large assistance from America, financially and otherwise, yet here the native people resolved to bear their share and gave what was for them and for that time a gift showing wonderful faith in Christian education and in the future. They contributed 160,000 plasters, actually about seven thousand dollars, but in purchasing power in that country the equivalent of at least $30,000, not a mean gift for education in the early seventies, even in America...
...convenience in this strange world in which he had been placed by the turning fortunes of his history. As yet no adequate solution has been found. Some, weary with the long struggle, throw the burden of inheritance overboard, and thus emancipated, freed, and untrammeled, set out to claim their share of the world's goods, in which they are quite often very successful. But instead of being welcomed by the world, they are not infrequently regarded as invaders and intruders. Others, quite willing to resist the lure of the great world, are contented to shut themselves up within a voluntary...
...degree detrimental to health. But now that the suite is the regular thing, the situation is entirely changed. Yet the statute lingers on. As a result, two men may still "inhabit" a room in Stoughton or Hollis, or four men in two connecting rooms. That is, four men share study and a bedroom together. On the other hand, the same space divided into a study and two bedrooms, on of them often large enough to be classed as "double", must, in the other Yard dormitories, be occupied by not more than two students. These suites, with their separate sleeping quarters...
...clock. Having access to his desk in the evening, the budding scientist,--the would-be chemist in particular,--would be free in the afternoon to air his genius on the field of sport. In that this project would enable an ever-increasing group of students to enjoy their share in the advantages of university life, the additional expenditure involved should be no great objection...
Even the Contributors' Club and the Contributors' Column share in the performance, and all the details of type and forms aid in the stage setting...