Word: buildings
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...establish a continuity of mental and moral influences from school to college the great necessity is to build up gradually a sense of responsibility. The college must rely on that; it can not wisely impose further restrictions. The school should steadily increase the boys' responsibility and as steadily strengthen him to meet it. One method of doing this is the system of "Prefects," which has worked well where it has been tried, and has shown good results in the later life at college. The college, on its part, should co-operate through some system of optional Faculty advisers...
Therefore I say, build the Union on the corner of Quincy and Harvard streets. It is the most available site we possess. Centre in the club as many College interests as possible and it will consequently become a rendezvous. It will even be considered convenient, and custom and usage will abolish all thoughts to the contrary. A JUNIOR...
...proper place for such an improvement is of course, the Gymnasium, but it would be more expensive to add a tank to the completed Gymnasium, than to build one when the University Club is being erected; and, indeed, the cost of a tank is slight in comparison with the total cost of the building about...
...also shows, we think, that the President's home, during the earlier years of the College at any rate, was regarded as almost if not quite as necessary for the purpose of the institution as dormitories and dining halls. Public money was appropriated by the General Court to build it, as it had been to build the College buildings, and the occupancy of it was considered as altogether official. It seems to us that on these facts the dominant and principal occupancy by the President cannot fairly be regarded than that for which the College was incorporated, and that...
Within the next two years Yale expects to put up three new buildings on the block bounded by College, Grove, High and Wall streets. The Misses Stokes of New York City have recently given $500,000 for a new administration building, which will be built fronting on Wall street. The auditorium and dining hall, which together will cost $750,000, will face on College and Grove streets. $250,000 has already been subscribed for these buildings and it is hoped that the alumni will subscribe the remaining $500,000 necessary in time for the buildings to be erected...