Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty haphazard years of jerrybuilding followed. The Civil War focused national attention upon the capital and its miserable estate. Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself. Washington grew out of its youthful squalor, but recklessly, without unity or good taste. Architecture went on a gingerbread spree?viz. the State, War & Navy Building, the Post Office Department Building. The L'Enfant plan was forgotten...
...light of the fact that competition with other colleges has appeared in the past a desirable stimulus to undergraduate athletic interest, this second point supporting the Corporation's plan may be thrown out at once. Whereas an income-bearing endowment which would be established with a view to making Harvard athletics independent of paid admissions is a pleasantly Utopian scheme, a capital improvement such as the erection of a thoroughly complete gymnasium should legitimately be considered a part of an institution's complete endowment. The situation may then be seen to resolve itself into a question of which of these...
...with the University's admitted policy of athletics-for-all. The proposed reduction in the price of tickets would enable more students to see athletics, but the gymnasium would make it possible for more men to engage in them, certainly a sounder point of view when seen in the light of established University theory and practice. Perhaps the crowning argument for this use of the present surplus is the fact that the authorities of the H. A. A. who have been in daily contact with the University's athletic problems for many years are heartily in favor of it. Since...
...Light Program Rendered by Orchestra of 80 Conducted by Casella...
...Yard concerts which are given at 7 o'clock on the steps of Widener Library are composed of programs of a light nature. It is planned to render Harvard songs in which the crowd will be asked to join...