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Most of the men connected with Harvard feel no lack of clubhouse facilities, for their work here entitles them to Harvard and University club membership throughout the country. The project under discussion will give similar privileges to some thirty thousand men who otherwise could not enjoy them. The plan is to furnish a building with swimming pool, restaurant, dormitories and recreation rooms at a very low annual cost per member. Surely this is a worthy project. We are hoping for generous support from Harvard...
...prize of $300, called the Helen Chaste Bell Prize, will be offered this year for the best essay of from five to ten thousand words on a subject in American Literature to be approved by Dean Briggs, and the competition will be open to all students in the University or Radcliffe College. It will close...
...been brought to an article on the Boston Police Strike by one Arthur Warner, which appeared in "The Nation" during the recent Christmas recess. Says Mr. Warner: "I found that partisanship and rancor had permeated almost every circle, even to Harvard University, the president of which had offered one thousand students (who fortunately never appeared) to take the places of absent police, while one of the lecturers had addressed a gathering of policemen's wives so sympathetically that a number of graduates were demanding, under pain of not contributing to the endowment fund, that his mouth be stopped...
...first place, President Lowell did not offer "one thousand students to take the place of absent police." His summons were: "All students who can do so prepare themselves for such service as the Governor may call upon them to render," and "these volunteers are reporting simply as citizens and not as strike-breakers." Approximately two hundred and fifty undergraduates of the Summer School answered his call. Furthermore, no Harvard lecturer addressed a gathing of policemen's wives. And we call on Mr. Villard to present facts which would support the statement that "a number of graduates were demanding, under pain...
Records of gifts for the past few days show that undergraduates at the University were among the recent subscribers. The Central Office is extremely gratified at this indication of home interest in the campaign. A contribution was also received from an alumnus residing in Mexico City. Among the one thousand dollar gifts recently received are those of J. Haleston Parker '93, Francis H. Swift '06, in memory of William N. Swift '77; Mrs. J. T. Coolidge; Mrs. R. M. Saltonstall; Alexander Steinert; and Frank G. Allen...