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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...operative Society's accounts was established by a student director, backed up by members of the Society, neither refutes nor weakens the contention that the Society has suffered from "unintelligent interference in matters of detail at the hands of the Board of Directors." The question of an audit, like the question of the publication of a detailed annual statement, is a question of public policy, not a question of administrative detail. The present Board of Directors heartily endorses the statement that the members at large can aid the management of the Society with suggestions and advice on questions of general...
...operative Society has twice been in danger of collapse, both times because of lack of good business management by the Superintendent. The first time, the Society was carried through by the personal credit of the then president; in the second case, the directors practically refused to take the business-like precaution of a proper audit of the books, until they were compelled to do so by the insistence of a student director, backed up by members of the Society, who absolutely insisted that an investigation be made. The audit showed such loose methods of business that a change of management...
...These stockholders will depute the management to the directors constituted like the present board, but to be appointed by the stockholders instead of by the members...
...tone is optimistic and its aim to show the true state of moral life at Harvard and the outgrown conditions which have made it pessimistically regarded in the past. "The Religion of a College Student," by Karl Young, deals with the religion of undergraduates in general, and not, like Dr. Peabody's article, with Harvard men in particular. The argument set forth is interesting, and unique to such an extent that many will doubtless disagree with its verdict--that the church should "candidly confess its ignorance and independence of scientific demonstration," and become symbolistic rather than rationalistic, artistic rather than...
...briefly as follows: Two or more large reading rooms, in which are to be kept general reference books, current periodicals, and reserved books; a series of rooms having as far as possible the privacy of home libraries, one for each department for its advance students; a book stack substantially like the present one, large enough to hold the accessions of at least the next fifteen years, with definite plans for future enlargement; suitable rooms for books on fine arts and archaeology, and for various historical material; and convenient administration rooms A study in detail of the requirements under each...