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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Gifts amounting to $155,510 were accepted, the largest being $111,370 from the estate of Gordon McKay. Another important gift was from the estate of Samuel C. Cobb, $30,000, on account of one-fifth part of the residuum of his estate "to be kept as a fund, but not requiring it to be invested as a special fund, of which the income only shall be used and applied towards the payment of the college dues of students in that university during their freshman and sophomore years, in such manner and for such deserving students as the faculty shall...
...season this year, after promising to give the largest amount of outdoor time for rowing that the men have had since the building of the dam, was blocked up so tight at the last minute that it was not cleared until almost the first of April. The only opportunity that the men had, therefore, for water work was the mediocre advantages which the tank offered, and so before the race with Cornell they had had very little chance for real work-outs under the real conditions. Nevertheless, when they lined-up at the start of their first contest, they were...
...before entering upon a practical business career. And it is questionable whether even a few captains of industry will be recruited from this class. A purely graduate school which can never expect more than a handful of students is thus abandoning its opportunity to serve the public in the largest measure. In the second place, not only must such a school from the very nature of the case be numerically insignificant, but it seems to be based upon an erroneous pedagogical principle. President Eliot, by pulling up, as he thought, the American college, to a higher or university level, advanced...
...number of foreign men in the University, but her proximity accounts for that. Second to her, and really first of countries of the other hemisphere, is China, whose large number indicates the seriousness with which that country is pursuing education. The enrolment of the nations having the largest number of students is given below: South Africa, 19 Canada, 198 China, 97 England, 38 Germany, 27 India, 21 Japan, 47 Turkey...
...stage will be 90 by 25 feet, and the proscenium arch will have an opening 80 feet wide, half as wide again as the opening of the largest operatic stage in the world. The size of this opening insures a perfect view of the stage from every side of the Bowl. Every one of the 20,000 spectators will have an equal opportunity of hearing the performance...