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Seventy-two scholarships, representing a total of $35,650, were announced yesterday at University Hall as having been awarded by the Corporation of Harvard College. Of this number 10 will defray the expenses of study abroad this coming summer, and the remaining 62 are to be held during the academic year...
...divergent policies that have accentuated the high prices. Part of the men hold that the house plan rents, no matter whether necessary or not, can be paid by the Harvard undergraduate and hence should be charged. The other faction holds that the accrued rent is needed to defray the cost, of running the houses and hence must be charged. The first point is not only economically wrong but is unfair. Certainly no more than absolutely necessary should be charged. The second point admits another fallacy on which the authorities are working. They have taken Dunster and Lowell houses as criteria...
...midst of all the recent turbulent discussion of the evils attendant on overemphasis of football and superspectacle gate-receipts, there appeared the brilliant idea that the alumni might be willing to defray the expenses of our athletics by large annual contributions. At the time, the suggestion was condemned as unfair and impractical, and we are glad to see that it has finally been put to death by President Angell...
...cost of building is covered by a gift from George Whitney '07. A similar gift from L. E. Herrick '97 will defray the expenses of construction and transportation of the Freshman boat, which is being built at Putney, England, by Sims and Sons, Boat builders...
...least part of this sum might be profitably used to defray the expenses of maintaining and operating the university's athletic equipment. At present this item is met almost entirely out of charges to students using the facilities. Locker fees, squash and tennis court charges, and the swimming pool charge are the main sources of this income. The amount spent in this way during the past year was$89,589.43, or about $3,000 less than the surplus plied up in a year which was scarcely expected to show any profit...