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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This fund was founded in 1888 by ten individual subscriptions of $1,000. Through a growth due solely to the addition of interest and loans repaid, the original endowment has now been swelled to $207,000. Repayments of loans is not forced, but it is found that, by a system of following up the borrowers after they leave College, over 60 per cent. of the needy students thus helped, eventually pay back both principal, and interest...
...Growth of International Co-operation and World Organization...
...account of the growth and work of the 47 Workshop by Mr. Reniers is a deserved tribute to one of our most competent organizations. No one doubts the success of Harvard-trained playwrights, but whether an author can be thus "produced" is at least an open question. Mr. Reniers's proof of the University's need of a home for its dramatics is an admirable example of special pleading. It is only to be regretted that convincing the audience is not equivalent to starting work on the building...
...adequate endowment will cover the expenses of the up-keep of the building and the collections; and any increase in the collections and the future growth of the library will be partially cared for by the special Germanic Museum Fund of $10,000 (the proceeds of the Joan of Arc performance) and by a recent legacy of $50,000 from the estate of a benefactor of the Museum, Hugo Reisinger. A valuable and unique addition to the reference library consists of a collection of prints illustrative of Goethe's works, which has been given by Miss E. C. Holland...
...table printed below, giving in parallel columns the number of men who applied for admission to Harvard College in the years 1911, 1912, 1913, and 1914, contains indications of growth which demand recognition. The total number of men admitted without conditions shows a steady increase from 1911 to 1914. This goes hand in hand with the increase of candidates under the "new plan," by the workings of which a man is admitted without conditions or not at all. The total number of men admitted for the current academic year, with and without conditions, is larger than it has ever been...