Word: landed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard interests. There is scarcely an issue of the Bulletin that does not relate the doings of some University organization with headquarters many miles from Cambridge. And yet here in Boston, where Harvard graduates are congregated, there is less unity among the alumni than in any city in the land...
...report for the year 1872-3 President Eliot says, "The gymnasium of the University is completely outgrown . . . it is not possible to enlarge the building with advantage. As the University has plenty of unoccupied land, it would be advisable . . . to erect a plain wooden building and to convert the present gymnasium into a swimming bath. . . . In 1859, when the gymnasium was finished, there were 623 students in Cambridge departments of the University; there...
...compare this situation with the one today. Our Gymnasium is outgrown and it cannot be advantageously enlarged. We still have plenty of land in the new athletic centre, suitable for a modern gymnasium. It is more than advisable, it is practically necessary, to erect some sort of a new building. Just what the present one might be converted into we dare not suggest. The swimming bath is still in the future, for the suggested building has long been used as a museum. Today there are 3583 students in Cambridge departments of the University--an increase of 2628. When the agitation...
Provision is made in the agreement for the purchase of land in the vicinity of the Harvard Divinity School, adequate to the present needs and probable development of the Seminary, as well as the immediate erection of one building to provide for the library, lecture and social rooms. This building will serve as the starting point in a scheme of buildings suitable for the various uses of the Seminary...
...logical development of our times, should welcome reasonable laws which place wholesome restraints upon its activities, so that through competition or otherwise it will not be induced or forced to overstep the safeguards of industrial rights and block the highways of opportunity for the humblest citizen of the land. There can be no liberty without opportunity, and to the extent that opportunity is abridged, whether by the state or by cor- porate power, it is denial of liberty. It is oppression, and it is no less oppression when it emanates from organized capital or from organized labor. The fundamental principles...