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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell closes his report with the significant statement that by raising the tuition, Harvard has drawn on her last source of supply. If she is to maintain her present position among American universities and attract men who can adequately fill the chairs of the great professors whom she has lost by death or resignation during the present year, more funds must be forthcoming. The $10,000,000 endowment fund is the best answer which Harvard's graduates can give to this plea...
...Among the Yale men coming from all parts of the country will be ex-President Taft, Chauncey M. Depew, Vance C. McCormick, Chairman of the Democratic Campaign Committee; Cornelius Vanderbilt, Otto T. Bannard, Frank Woodward, ex-president of the Golf Association, and many others...
...fathers of Yale track athletics; "Pudge" Heffiefinger, "Dutch" Carter, Fred Stevenson, captain of the '88 crew, which held the record of the Thames River course for twenty-eight years, and a host of others from Yale teams dating from the early sixties down to the present day, will be among the diners...
...adventures with the "vampire" member of the "movie" stock company, all the time being photographed by a moving-picture camera without his knowledge, and when the denoument arrives, he concedes that the "movies" are on a par with all the other fine arts, and deserving of a representative among the muses...
...standard of the University's teaching staff. The most humble and unpretentious of colleges enjoys a world-wide reputation if its faculty is composed of the best educational minds the country can boast of. Harvard has for years been noted for the great teachers and scholars which are numbered among her professors. During the last decade many of her most renowned and valuable professors have been lost for unavoidable reasons. Harvard must fill the vacancies made by the loss of these men with the foremost teachers and professors of the literary and scientific worlds. How is this to be done...