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This is the first of two articles intended as an explanation of the purposes of the 300th Anniversary Fund announced yesterday by President Conant...
...Harvard, apparently oblivious to depression, has announced that it will un- deriake a magnificent advance in the held of education. The courage--let if not be andacity at this time to propose the building up of a vest endowment fund is only less to be admired than the intelligence and wisdom of the plan itself...
...general purpose of the 300th Anniversary Fund is to strengthen the intellectual and spiritual life and increase the usefulness of the University, first, by the creation of a number of new professorships to be known as "University Professorships"; and second, by the establishment of new "Harvard National Scholarships...
...underlying purpose of the 300th Anniversary Fund is to fortify the University as a whole in contrast to its separate parts of departments. A university is an institution animated by the idea that, while the division of knowledge, the distinctions among schools, the concentration upon teaching or investigation, the separation of the arts and the sciences, of the profession and the liberal studies, are convenient, they are merely provisional and in some measure artificial...
...course will be a scientific survey, and anyone who has ever had a speech defect of any sort is invited to be present. Only by getting the history of actual cases can the department build up its fund of knowledge...