Word: lively
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...city. Even the Warren estate, now proposed for the Harvard Union, was urged as being more desirable, and an unavailing effort was made to buy it. Nevertheless the location has turned out to be a most desirable one; not only do the College professors and graduates, who live mostly in Ward One, employ the club-house a great deal, a good many of the unmarried ones boarding there; but it draws members without difficulty for its "smoke-talks" and other gatherings from all parts of Cambridge. Besides all this, its hall is constantly in demand for receptions and dances...
...State Legislature, asking that the College property be assessed for its full value of over $10,000,000 and that this tax be paid to Cambridge out of the State treasury. This is justified, it is argued, on the ground that about 40 per cent. of Harvard men live in Massachusetts and enjoy the municipal advantages and improvements of Cambridge. The principle of this plan has a great significance since it will acknowledge the justice of taxing college property and will be a step toward direct and complete taxation...