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Dates: during 1900-1909
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John McGaw Woodbury, Street Commissioner of New York City, spoke at the Union last night on "The Need of College Men in Municipal Government." He emphasized the increased cleanliness of New York, due to enlightened methods, and showed how street cleaning could be made self-supporting by the scientific preparation of refuse for cementing, for fertilizer and the like. In closing, Mr. Woodbury said that it was chiefly the indolent rich who were the real cause of our municipal degradation. The lecture was followed by an informal discussion...
...gone on. The passing and team play have been fairly good, but at no time has the fast and aggressive play been developed which is so necessary to a winning team. To the lack of this and the failure of the men to throw baskets accurately is largely due the poor result of the season's work up to this time. In addition to this, the team has been weak in throwing goals from fouls. This weakness was responsible for the loss of the Cambridge game with Columbia and has kept down the score in other games. Of the individual...
...year's accounts of the Dental School show a deficit of $5,345.53 instead of the habitual surplus of preceding years. This was due in part to a reduction in the number of students, and in part to a reduction of fees at the infirmary. It emphasizes the fact that the School needs and deserves an endowment...
...apart from ethical and social considerations; and that moral facts having immediate relation to human character are inextricably involved in all production of economic goods. The gist of his idea is in the words, "There is no wealth but life." That his social ideas have never been realized is due to the fact that they involve a reversion to social forms which can never again be permanently established...
...Overseers, it was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their votes electing Henry Pickering Bowditch, M.D., LL.D., D.Sc., to the George Higginson Professorship of Physiology. It was also voted to establish the Wales Professorship of Sanskrit, the Wales bequest made nearly fifty years ago having fallen due; the Charles Eliot Professorship of Landscape Architecture; and the Nelson Robinson, Jr., Professorship of Architecture, both of which have been founded through funds presented by Mr. Nelson Robinson...