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...gift of $12,000 from Andrew Carnegie has just been added to the fund for building Emerson Hall, the new philosophical building, the corner stone of which the University hopes to be able to lay on May 25, the centennial anniversary of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson '21. This gift, which was made through Professor Munsterberg, of the Philosophical Department, brings the total amount now subscribed for the building up to about $140,000. This is only $10,000 less than the sum required by the Corporation before the corner stone can be laid...
Previous to this gift $65,000 had already been raised by the visiting committee of the philosophy department, and $10,000 more has been promised upon the condition that the fund is completed in time to lay the corner stone of the hall at the centennial of Emerson's birth, May 24. The amount which must be raised in order to insure the building of the hall is $150,000, and as $125,000 of this amount is now assured, only $25,000 is needed before the middle of May, or $35,000 before Commencement, to complete the fund...
...United States must think not merely of the menace its self. From their birth she has watched over the little republics of South America and helped them to work out the great problem of self government. Can she now calmly see done to them the worst injustice that can be done to any state--their land taken from them? The law never takes the mechanic's tools, the lawyer's books, nor can it take the home of the bankrupt. Once allow a European state a foot-hold in South America and it will be impossible to prevent its taking...
...affirmative have no desire to abandon the Monroe doctrine; we simply say that when it works injustice it ought to yield. The negative has maintained that the retention of this small section of South American territory would be dangerous to the United States. Ever since its birth as a nation the United States has been surrounded cast, south and north, by the American possessions of European powers, and her interests have not been in danger. The gentleman has wisely overlooked in his argument any danger to our mainland. He has realized that there could be none. Venezuela...
...committee wishes to raise $125,000 for this building and hopes to be able to lay the corner-stone on May 25, of this year, the one-hundredth anniversary of Emerson's birth...