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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last year the building-fund had attained such dimensions that the long-desired CRIMSON Building became an actual possibility. Work was begun last spring and has progressed with extraordinary rapidity until now the building is practically complete. With the occupation of this permanent home of its own, the migratory days of the CRIMSON are over, and all its future energy can be directed toward internal improvement...
...offer generally, I expect the keenest response from the larger universities where dramatic departments are already established. Professor G. P. Baker at Harvard takes students with dramatic instinct and develops that talent in his English 47. Yale and Columbia have similar courses, I believe, and Syracuse University has begun one within the past few months. Steps have been taken in the same direction at the University of Minnesota and other institutions. I have been greatly interested in these attempts to encourage intelligent consideration of playwriting among students. Harvard seems to have been most successful, turning out such men as Edward...
...actual work of erection the pedestal was begun yesterday by the firm of Coolidge and Shattuck, the same which made the plans for the three dormitories. Arrangements have been made by the committee in charge, composed of A. C. Sullivan '18, J. Lathrop '18, and L. O. Simonds...
...conference Why instead of having a police force, should not the citizens agree to boycott offenders? The answer is clearly--because it would not be effective in preventing violence. By the time such remedies can be applied, the harm is done; in the case of nations the war has begun, and the world is ablaze. The fear of an international boycott may be great, but for a country that has prepared elaborately for war it is slight compared with the prospect of an armed conflict with all the other great powers of the world. What is needed is the certainty...
...reconstruction of the central part of the Gray Herbarium, which was begun in 1912, was completed this spring. This section of the building includes, besides several rooms for special purposes, the main hall, a room of considerable size, provided with two steel and glass galleries and surrounded by a triple row of steel herbarium cases. This room, well lighted and equipped with furnishings highly perfected for its purposes, contains also a bronze relief of Dr. Gray by Saint Gaudens, several busts, and many portraits of distinguished botanists...