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...graduates were to take the tone--"The subscription business, however, has become a nuisance"? Is it a fatal objection to the contributions now being made to the general fund that they are "unevenly distributed," and many men of small means give relatively more than some of their richer brethren? Would it not be fairer to raise the price of tution for those who are actually to profit by it, instead of appealing to the generosity of those who are long out of College? If, as has sometimes been said, it is humiliating to a student to solicit money from another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC FINANCIAL POLICY | 6/21/1905 | See Source »

...system are the admirable hygienic precautions, and the system of workmen's insurance which compels every employee receiving less than a stipulated wage to invest in insurance and pensions for himself and family a certain fraction of his yearly earnings. The motto of the German code is "Love your brethren;" and for that reason it is proper that the embodiment of the German ideas should be placed in the Harvard Museum of Social Ethics. The motive of the Emperor in presenting this gift was two-fold: first, to foster closer relations between German and American economists, and secondly, to promote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIFT OF EMPEROR | 3/1/1905 | See Source »

...President, Brethren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ELIOT'S RECEPTION | 3/22/1904 | See Source »

...better start in short distance races; it may be that the stamina and endurance of the Briton enable him to last better in long distances. No doubt each has something to learn from the other. But we Oxford and Cambridge University men, like our athletic brethren with whom we have competed on the other side of the water, have taken up athletics not for a career or a profession but for exercise and sport. Nothing showed this better than the characteristic remark made by Garnier when he was told that he had been beaten on the tape in the hurdles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Lees Knowles on Athletics. | 1/9/1902 | See Source »

...sentence of compulsory military service on many more. As a result of these harsh sentences, renewed disturbances have taken place at Kieff, and a general uprising of university students throughout the empire is to be apprehended. Harvard men who are at all interested in the fortunes of their student brethren elsewhere should assemble in the mass-meeting and pass resolutions denouncing such uncivilized invasion of student freedom; they should extend their sympathy to their fellows who are sacrificing their lives in the cause of student liberty. Such a protest can in no sense mean an encouragement to a revolt against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/28/1901 | See Source »

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