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...substance, the plan agreed upon between Harvard and the Institute of Technology devotes three-fifths of the endowment to an engineering school, which is not only located at the Institute but is conducted and controlled by the Institute instead of by the University. We cannot assent to the assertion of counsel that 'the school of applied science on the Charles River embankment is a Harvard school, a department of Harvard University...
...electrician for having attended a trade school at sixteen. He has simply started earlier, at the sacrifice of certain kinds of learning which cannot be acquired later. And if one fellow gets his start, others must compete with him in the same way. Thus the old condition will re-assent itself until someone takes an earlier start--still, so on, ad infinitum. But provided that the more rigorous features of these programs are omitted, such as the "professorship of public recreation" or that rumored department of hat-trimming in a certain co-educational college, the training of sense certainly...
...building of Divinity Hall. For a full century the school has maintained its high ideals of scholarship and its non-sectarian spirit, the latter enjoined by the constitution, which provides that "every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial and unbiased investigation of Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denominations of Christians shall be required of either instructor or students...
...Intercollegiate Rowing Association gave out publicly yesterday that the Intercollegiate Regatta would be held on the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on June 17. There had been some speculation as to whether the University of Pennsylvania would agree to this, but that university has now given its assent...
...committee of seven be elected by all the students, that this committee hold a public meeting to receive proposals and hear arguments, and thereafter draw up a constitution to be ratified by the students, section by section, and that when any member of the committee does not assent to any one provision, the alternatives be presented to the voters...