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...possible that in her ambition for intellectual supremacy Harvard has forgotten the physical side of her students? Is the Stillman Infirmary merely a sanctuary for the weary, or has it a superior function? Is the medical advisory department conducted on modern principles, or is it a traditional heirloom? The virtue in medical advice does not rest essentially in its ability to suggest a way to a cure, as in its ability to ward off disease. Does the medical advice received at Harvard perform either of these...
...young men have a sacred heirloom, in the blood shed and treasure spent in your country's defence. Do not fall to abide by it. It is for you to make your country great and happy. Your boys rose like one man for this country, just as ours did. You and we entered the war for the principle of idealism; and came out of it without grievances and without possessions. These facts form a common bond between us. Among you are many Italian students and I hope that in the future American students will come to Italy in increasing numbers...
...manner in which the address became a cherished heirloom in the Keyes family was explained to the Senate. The two addresses, in their bound form, were presented by Mr. Everett to Mrs. Hamilton Fish, in recognition of her services as president of a war relief organization during the Civil War. The volume was put up at auction in aid of war relief funds and was purchased by Carlos Peirce, an uncle of Senator Keyes. At the death of Mr. Peirce, the volume descended to Senator Keyes's mother. The valuable work is now in the possession of the Senator himself...
...said to show the injustice of this practice, and we wish it were diminishing rather than increasing. The fact of living in a desirable room for three or four years ought to satisfy in itself, for it certainly does not confer the right of considering the room an heirloom to be handed down in perpetuity. But even worse than making over rooms to one's friends is the bartering for and selling of such rooms, often at a scarcity value. In condemnation of this we think nothing too severe can be said. It is difficult now at the best...