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Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Governor of New York and Alumni Marshal for this year's commencement, was President of the CRIMSON during the year in which the above letter was published. Commenting editorially in the issue containing the letter, the CRIMSON states...
That the University authorities are not exaggerating when they state in their appeals for funds for the new gymnasium that Harvard has outgrown Hemenway, seems borne out by the following letter found in the CRIMSON of January 25, 1904. Nearly everything that the writer sets forth in this letter written 25 years ago is applicable to the present situation...
...What 'the graduate' who wrote the letter states may be all very true. . . . Harvard does need a new gymnasium, and she needs a library and a host of other things; Harvard has not enough money to take proper care of the buildings she now has. . . . Harvard has no fairy godmother to slip round millions into her hands every other month. Yet in spite of this she seems to get on pretty well, staying near the head of the procession for the past three hundred years. . . . Whenever Harvard needed anything in the years gone by, a friend has always been found...
Still interested in Innovation, however, Mr. Bonsall last spring visited the Innovation plant in Long Island City, last fall wrote to Mr. Trentacoste a letter which later was used in the sale of an Innovation stock issue. Said Mr. Bonsall, in part...
...Professor, wishing to mitigate a possible shock to my pride, said to me, "Never mind, I have just received a letter from my Harvard graduate, in which he writes...