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...that in order to found a dormitory system the University was buying land south of Mt. Auburn street. This would improve surrounding property and increase values. On this land the University expected to pay taxes according to its present valuation. If taxed Harvard would be obliged either to curtail education or increase the tuition...
...year 1909-10 were $127,945, or about $425 a day for ten months of the year. The charge of extravagance naturally follows such an exhibit of figures. Doubtless there is a considerable amount of money spent unnecessarily each year. A steady effort is being made, however, to curtail foolish expenditures and to spend the income of the association where it will accomplish most for the good of the University. A complete analysis of all the expenses during the past few years would demand more space than is available. A few facts about the finances of the association are herewith...
...away with intercollegiate athletics, or curtail them so that it is no longer possible to meet our dearest rivals, and forward passes, sacrifice hits, and strikeouts would no longer be talked about. But would questions of political economy or philosophy be more prominent? We are convinced that they would...
Before passing an opinion on this action it is only fair to say that the Athletic Committee is in as hard a position as a body of men could well be. Confronted on the one side by two Faculty recommendations "to curtail largely the number of intercollegiate contests," and on the other by an undergraduate sentiment violently opposed to such an action, the Committee has felt called upon to act, and has therefore taken the first step in yielding to the stronger of the two opinions. But, if there is to be a concession it is apparently coming...
From the very first the CRIMSON opposed any proposition to curtail the number of intercollegiate contests, and our opinion is in no wise altered. We have no faith in the necessity for curtailment or restriction of any kind, not to mention an absolute and unqualified abolishing of intercollegiate contests in all the winter sports. Throughout the year we have taken up in detail the many and varied arguments in favor of intercollegiate sport: its power in holding the undergraduate community together, its good effects upon the participants both morally and physically, its power as an outlet for the energy that...