Word: validity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Further, "that the amount of future gifts or the conditions of the bequests is not known, does not seem a valid reason for avoiding the study of possibilities. It is known that there will be bequests, and it is plain that a donor would rather have his building well placed than ill placed. It is also possible that if buildings continue to be placed as now, persons may not want to build at all at Cambridge. Hence the desire to have the main lines upon which blocks of buildings may be set fixed once and for all. No stronger argument...
...DEAR SIR-We have to acknowledge the receipt of a petition in behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College for Students for abatement of taxes on certain parcels of real estate, regarding which we will say that we believe the tax valid and properly assessed, and do therefore decline to grant said petition...
...tree is to be kept is, to the great majority of Harvard men, doubtless the most agreeable thing in the outcome of the whole affair. To hold the scrimmage about this particular tree is one of the most generally recognized traditions connected with the University, and until some valid reason is advanced showing why the exercises at this tree are dangerous or out of place, they will mean more to the average Harvard man if held where they have been held for the last eighty years...
...suggested during the late discussion of the "Tree" exercises that none of Harvard's few old customs should be disturbed and that her old traditions should be preserved as far as possible, unless real valid objection to them or some unbecoming fault could be shown...
...elderly men. These people undoubtedly offended, not from design but from ignorance of our customs. To loudly stamp under such circumstances seems to me extremely discourteous and totally unworthy of Harvard men. The custom is, at best, a rather childish one and I fail to see any valid reason for its continuance...