Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contract for the construction has already been let and it is expected that work will start shortly. The buildings are to be ready for occupancy by the middle of next September. The designing of the houses has been done by Kilham, Hopkins and Greely, a firm of Boston architects. The letting of rooms will be under the supervision of Mr. George W. Robinson, Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...begrudge their clubs to the gregarious; but we should have resented being forced into a college mould, and detested the wire-pulling that would have been necessary in freshman year, to get in the "right college" for the last three years. For let no one imagine that all the sub-divided colleges will be equal in social attraction. Almost fatally the public-school men will gravitate to some, and the prep-school men to others: certain unfortunates will be wanted no where, unless they are segregated into colleges of their...
...game should be preserved as it is, but the colleges should not let the public bowl interrupt their several theories for developing good teams without requiring more of the players interest and time than the game justifies. Keep the sport-goer out of the stands if necessary, except for the alumnus and undergraduate; but by no means carve up a great game simply because the public looks upon it as a Golden Calf. Yale News...
...Suppose, for example, that John Cadwallader Grimshaw, having accumulated wealth and feeling a surge of generosity, decides to do something for his university. He has, let us say, half a million dollars to bestow. Does he present his half million to his Alma Mater without strings, to be used as the authorities now and in the future may determine? Probably not; for instinctively he feels that his money will lose its identity. It will be just another gift. Very humanly, he wants to set up something separate and visible, something which may be seen of men in the years...
...let us see what effect Mr. Grimshaw's generosity has upon the financial situation of his university. His gift is welcome; make no doubt of that. But does it enable the university to accomplish more adequately the work to which it is already committed? Only too often it extends the work of the university without strengthening it at the center, or adds money to some fund which is relatively ample. Sometimes the situation is even worse than that: many a university has been presented with a proud building, yet has not received adequate funds for upkeep, with the result that...