Word: approached
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Quincy Square to the Charles River. Unless specially requested, the Board will hold no more hearings, but will collect the evidence already presented. The general argument in favor of the plan is that it will make a suitable terminus for the driveway from Boston to Cambridge and a dignified approach to the University. It has been pointed out that the value of property in Cambridge will be so enhanced as to meet the necessary expense. Those opposed to it say that it is not needed and will only be an unnecessary expense to the city...
...cordon of police will be established at Memorial Hall this morning, and only ticket holders will be allowed to approach the building or even to enter the enclosure. A similar cordon will be established about the Union in the afternoon...
...apply this principle to taxation. In its light we see that we do not even approach justice in our methods of taxing. Even in local taxation, where we come nearest to justice, we tax only visible property. Our federal taxation is yet more unjust, for there we tax a man's needs, not his possessions. We have failed to secure an income tax. The nation has become unlimited where it deals with men, but limited where it deals with property. The government, in the hour of peril, may take men and stand them up against the enemies' guns...
President Eliot expressed himself as in favor of the plan because it would make a dignified approach to the University and would greatly enhance the value of the property in Cambridge. He also said that Harvard graduates would undoubtedly contribute financially towards the plan...
...approach of the championship games of the Intercollegiate Hockey League, composed of teams representing Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton and Columbia, makes it interesting to note the progress of the teams Harvard is to meet...