Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were three questions that the CRIMSON set out yesterday to answer. These were: How much land between Massachusetts Avenue and the Charles does Harvard own? How much of the remainder is owned by Harvard men who will cooperate? How did it happen that Maurice-Firuski, owner of the Dunster House Bookshop, had been able to purchase from the University Associates without stipulations as to use the corner which his store occupies on Mt. Auburn and Dunster Streets...
During the past decade, it has been supposed, the authorities have been getting possession of real estate between the Yard and the Charles with the express intention of turning this rather miscellaneous region toward the development of the college. As buildings and land have been offered for sale, they have been bought with this particular purpose in view. It seemed that the extension of college building over all the property between the freshman dormitories and Massachusetts avenue was assured as a logical and inevitable step...
...Paul's Church, at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets. Every Harvard man must receive such news with a grave apprehension for the future of the University. It must be the secret if perhaps unexpressed wish of all who are interested in Harvard to see the land between Massachusetts Avenue and the Charles become an integral part of the college, and built up according in some plan that will do justice to the beauty of the river site. Such a plan was printed in the Alumni Bulletin of November 20, 1924. A ten-story modern building...
...fact remained, however, that the Louvain Library was not being built-and this fact was brought home to that good friend of Belgium, U. S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, onetime food controller in that land, by Mgr. Ladeuze, Rector of the University. As the man who has never undertaken anything for Belgium that "has not been completed in the fullest sense," the good Rector appealed to Mr. Hoover for additional aid. Said he: "As you are aware, the construction of the new library was undertaken by an American group headed by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler some four years...
...History," and in the course of his speech, Dean Pound traced the varying influence of religions of various periods of history on the legal manners or practices of the times, and ended by expressing his belief that the time would come when men would obey the Law of the land, "not because they must, but because they ought...