Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Corporation meeting held recently, miscellaneous gifts amounting to $11,667.87 were accepted for the University. This sum includes a gift of $5000 from Mrs. Horatio King to establish the Horatio King Fund, the income of which is to be devoted to the purchase books for the Department of Government and Administration, and, if there shall be any surplus, for books on scientific subjects...
...Student Council meeting held last evening, it was moved to request the University authorities to establish the week beginning with the first Monday in April as the regular Easter vacation. If the change is made, it will not go into effect before the spring of 1915. The motion to allow any except the Senior class to have a class button was defeated. The movement in favor of such a button was started by the Sophomore class some time ago but it is thought that the custom should remain a distinct Senior tradition. An amendment to have the Freshman president...
...Walling then spoke of the Socialists position towards society. It is the aim of Socialism to abolish class rule to destroy 'hierarchical government, and to establish a condition where there are no superimposed classes. The means of accomplishing this are partly political and partly financial; political, through strikes...
...This fund was started about a year and a half ago, which was about a year before the celebration of Professor G. L. Kittredge's twenty fifth anniversary as a teacher here. The purpose of this fund, which has been contributed by the friends of Professor Kittredge, is to establish a permanent principal, the income of which is to be expended in purchasing such books for the College Library as Professor Kittredge may suggest. If he is at any time unable to direct the expenditure, such books as he would approve are to be purchased. A special book-plate...
...cannot hold the attention of the hurrying multitudes of the city for a great length of time, seldom for as long as they deserve. But a solution lies in translating them into concrete--or brick--realities. This is the means which the Harvard Club of Boston has taken to establish the idea that Boston and Cambridge are united by the strong, though invisible, ties of Harvard. As long as Harvard is in Cambridge, so long will Boston be a centre of interest for Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates. It is, therefore, the one place outside of Cambridge that should support...