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...announcement that the Harvard Club of Boston is planning to erect a permanent clubhouse furnishes conclusive proof of the wisdom of its founders and of the strength of the spirit of cooperation that has recently animated the graduates in the vicinity...
...Overseers and in it recommend that an entirely new building be constructed. It may be constructed in sections, if necessary, but on no account should it contain portions of old buildings in its completed form. Briefly, their recommendation is to do away with the old building, and to erect on its site a much larger building which, when completed, will form four sides of a square. The front and principal entrance is to face Appleton Chapel. The east and west sides will extend from the facade towards Massachusetts Avenue; the south side, joining the other two sides, will...
...more desired than that the Cambridge side of the Back Bay Basin, on which millions of dollars have been spent, should be occupied by monumental buildings, worthy of the location and of the city. Here was the opportunity, when an institution of great reputation throughout the United States would erect such buildings, and thereby assure the future of that entire section; but the unfriendly clamor in previous years frightened that institution away, and with it the guarantee that that section would remain desirable. The point was driven home a little later, when, President Maclaurin having publicly announced that Technology...
Above the fireplace in the living room it is proposed to place an oil painting of Burr. It was originally planned to erect a memorial tablet in the entrance hall, but this idea has been abandoned in favor of the picture...
...plan to erect a new building for the Varsity Club is a step which will assure beyond doubt the permanence of an excellent institution. It is especially fitting that the new clubhouse should be so closely connected with the Union, for both are primarily democratic in spirit. The men who use the Varsity Club are the men training for the athletic teams. Athletics like the Union are "open to all Harvard men without restriction, in which they all stand equal...