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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual meeting of the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review, yesterday, John Gorham Palfrey of the second year class, Harvard '96, was elected editor-in-chief...
...number of the Lampoon is the first one issued by the '99 board. The most interesting of the editorials deals with the choice of a site for Brooks House. The illustrations in the number are good, the centre page showing what the College Yard would resemble in case the Memorial Society should placard every interesting historical site with a memorial stone. "The Gypsy Moths," a take off on Flandrau's "Butterflies" is rather clever, though the general tendency of these stories is to make a ridiculous combination of words take the place of a real parody on ideas...
Together with the report to the Board of Overseers, a summary of which appears in another column, was submitted the suggestion, "that the Board of Overseers request the President and Fellows to reconsider their vote of November 7, 1894, in relation to the lands and buildings of the College, and appoint a committee to confer on the subject with a committee from the Board of Overseers." This was approved by the Board, but the Corporation, while appointing such a committee, as in 1894, considered a complete scheme for the future development of the College property, impracticable...
...Monday the CRIMSON published an article illustrative of past movements in favor of the formation of a complete scheme for the future development of the College property. In November of 1896 this feeling was emphasized by a report of its committee to the Board of Overseers, which summarized the principal arguments in favor of such a plan and contained a number of suggestions as to important features. A diagram, a portion of which is reproduced this morning, was attached to this report as explanatory of the suggestions it contained...
...meeting these objections the report of the Committee to the Board of Overseers first argued "that while it is easy to understand why the Corporation should object to discussion about lands remote from the present property, it can do no harm to suggest such approaches as it might be expected the public spirit of the city would supply as a part of their park system, or to form conjectures as to the improvement of the present grounds, if contiguous property, that everybody knows the college would gladly own, were obtained...