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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent meeting of the University Corporation little was done besides discussing the proposed action of the city of New Haven in trying to tax various portions of the college property, raising the amount paid yearly from $50,000 to $489.000. Should this be done, a serious blow would be inflicted on Yale, and it is felt that the college does enough good to the town to deserve better treatment. Letters from other institutions of learning show that little or no taxation is universal elsewhere. A test case will be made soon before the courts...
...immediately encircling the Tree would be almost the only ones to get flowers." This is a physical impossibility. The Class Day Committee propose to fasten on the Tree a wreath of flowers four feet in breadth. It is hard to see how a dozen men could carry off this amount of flowers, to say nothing of tearing them off the Tree. Moreover, there would be no object in carring off more than a reasonable number, for the simple reason that the men behind would not permit it, but would deprive their greedy comrades of any superfluous spoil...
...Columbia and the youthful but rich University of Chicago throw the benefactions to Harvard into insignificance. In the recent gift of a million dollars to Columbia that institution received almost twice as much at a single time as all Harvard's gifts and bequests for the last three years amount to. The enormous benefactions by single individuals in recent years to Leland Stanford University and the University of Chicago have built up in a few years powerful educational institutions which in material resources, so necessary to a great university's welfare, and in attendance are no distant rivals...
...Corporation could use the income of additional endowments to the amount of ten millions of dollars for the satisfaction of none but well-known and urgent wants." It seems a direct reproach to the many rich Harvard graduates, of which Harvard has more probably than any other university in the land, that it should suffer so severely for the means to carry out the plans so wisely and broadly conceived to make it a complete university, doing the most that it is capable of in the field of education...
...invested funds of the University now amount to $8,526,813.67, an increase of $5,120,160.24 in twenty years. The general fall in the rate of interest during the past year has embarrassed many departments of the University which depend upon the income of permanent funds. During the year 1895 96 the amount of gifts and bequests to the University was $243,791.05. "During the same period at least five American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments. If the primacy of Harvard University among American institutions of education...