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Phillips Brooks House was built in 1900 as a memorial to Bishop Brooks, who preached for many years to students at Harvard University. The house was intended to serve as a center for such activities as would foster and develop religious and philanthropic interests among Harvard students...
...best. For the Golden Age of the Empire is a thing of the past and if the country that still treasures its remains is to enjoy the benefits that a younger culture has to offer, it can only be by learning the methods by which it has been built up. China will be a happier land when it has succeeded in taking its place among the great nations in the world today, and Harvard is fortunate to be represented among the American universities that are helping to bring this about...
Equally hard hit by the high tariff is the new export trade which America has built up since the war. One can only wonder what new adaptation of the old Mercantile Theory is taken to justify a policy of excluding the goods of a large customer who can in no other way pay for what he buys...
...discovered, and this is especially true when the opposition is expected to count on its line attack for those vital two and three-yard gains the success of which often spells victory or defeat. Harvard's opponents are mostly of the big-college-powerfully-built type who plan to have their open attacks carefully checked by driving line offensives in critical moments. To have a pair of weak guards who will wilt under heavy battering is to be under a handicap so grievous that it may be termed almost fatal...
Large lecture rooms, one seating 350 students and the other 200, give the school the additional classroom space which it has needed for a great while. The larger of these rooms is built in the form of an amphitheatre and can be used for some of the trials. But it is the new Courtroom where most of the important trials will be conducted by the undergraduates...