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...Stillman Infirmary, which is now ready to receive patients, was provided for by a gift of $75,000 from Mr. James Stillman of New York, and was designed by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, of Boston. It is a brick structure about 80 feet long and 40 feet wide, built in the same style as the main building, with which it is connected by a semicircular passageway two stories high. The upper story of this passageway is an open colonade, provided with which it is connected by a semicircular passageway two stories high. The upper story of this passageway...
...inch reflecting telescope, made in England in 1888 by the late A. A. Common and purchased this year by the university, is now being set up at the Astronomical Observatory. A two-story building, 15 feet wide and 27 feet long, has been erected to enclose it. The lower floor contains a silvering room; in the upper room, in which the observer sits, is located the eyepiece of the reflector. The telescope will be adjusted by electricity, and in order to secure a delicate balance a large part of its weight will be floated in a concrete tank, constructed...
...pass now to our second proposition, that the free elective system is unrivalled in the promotion of broad views. As far as it is a question of securing to the student a wide and same view of the world in which he lives, the number of studies which have an equal claim upon his attention are as numerous as the many and diverse activities of our complex modern life. In view of the fairly comparable values of the great number of studies in promoting breadth of view, it is ridiculous to fasten upon any single study or department of study...
...from persons more than from courses. Finally and above all else, free election gives full play to the faculty of selection. Men have grown to fame simply by developing themselves along the line of their own talents. From the days of Burke, graduated by grace and learning from his wide political reading, even until now, men have prepared themselves for the best and most useful lives by selecting what best meets their needs. If they made mistakes, they profited by those very mistakes and in the end made themselves...
...buildings in this section can be torn down, the dormitories and club houses left, with plenty of open space around them, where new and less expensive dormitories can be built, so that the Yard and the Mt. Auburn street district can be fused into one large yard with wide lawns stretching down to the river. This would make one of the largest college grounds in the country, extending from Harvard square to the Union, and from Cambridge street to the river...