Word: impel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard must either increase its accommodations shortly or stop its growth, now is an excellent time to fix at least on paper the main lines upon which to build in the future. Indeed it is even possible that a well prepared plan might impel an intending benefactor to give to the College the funds needed to properly develop some part of the College grounds, by building avenues and roads and setting up trees and shrubbery, creating in this way suitable building sites. The grading and planting of a quadrangle and its decoration with aisles and walks, and steps and avenues...
...aside from the consideration of the gain we might reasonably expect from this reform, Harvard love of truth ought to impel '97 men, as soon as the evil of slate election is brought to their notice, to take prompt action to insure that the honors they are about to bestow be fairly and honestly won. There will be close contests for some places; friends will solicit votes for their favorites; that is inevitable. There should be, however, no more iron-clad pledging of men, in clubs or out, to support a man for a particular office merely because his name...