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...other universities, also, the last few years have seen a remarkable growth of opportunities for self-support. The establishment of employment bureaus in nearly every college and university in the land is a step toward the demonstration of American higher education. Today, for the first time a conference of representatives of the employment bureaus of twelve of our largest universities will be held in New York. The purpose of the conference is to discuss the problems presented in the work of these bureaus, and we hope that much good will result from this opportunity for co-operation and combination...
...institution was re-organized solely as an institution for advanced instruction and research in subjects relating to practical agriculture and as such it is now being used. The part of the Estate to be sold, amounting to about 118 acres is separated from the rest of the land by the tracks of the Boston and Providence Railroad and is so scattered as to be of little use for the purposes of the institution...
...scholarly achievement. The proposed action is not only a naive admission of the extent to which we are systematising, and bringing under the modern commercial and practical standards of efficiency, higher education, but it is also a witness to the increasingly intimate relation between the colleges of the land and public life...
...abolish River View avenue, and throw the land partly into the parking of Charles River Road and partly into more room for the new Freshman Dormitories...
...methods of judicial procedure, President Eliot has presented in succinct and forcible terms, and he emphasizes particularly that public opinion is demanding reform. Here, certainly is another field in which Harvard University through the Law School may show that the higher educational institutions of the land have their thumb on the public opinion and are able and ready to prescribe remedies for social skills. As the current number of the Alumni Bulletin suggests: "Certainly the Law School as a constituent part of the University could make no greater contribution to the good fame of the University, or more greatly strengthen...