Word: matters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...operative history of the United States, in twenty-six volumes to be issued by Harper and Brothers under the general title "The American Nation. A History from Original Material by Associated Scholars." Each volume will have about three hundred pages and besides the text will contain some illustrative matter, a few maps, a chapter of critical bibliography, and an index. The divisions of the work will be chronological; and personal, social and economic, as well as political factors will be considered...
...advisable. Those questions as to eligibility which have attracted notoriety in the newspapers of recent years have been chiefly those of graduate students, and whether or not in any such cases there has been anything to bring any just unfavorable comment on the University, the mere circulation of the matter has brought a disagreeable prominence and tended to hurt the University's athletic reputation by such notoriety. If graduates were debarred, such cases would practically disappear...
...widening and extension of DeWolf street. The question came before the citizens of Cambridge early in 1902 as the result of a petition, signed by President Eliot, Charles F. Adams and others, asking for "a dignified approach to Harvard College." The Board of Survey held several hearings on the matter, at which both parties to the plan were heard...
...number of graduates and friends of the University have pledged a sum of money for the carrying out of the project, and it is expected that this amount will be considerably increased now that definite steps, have been taken in the matter...
...matter is now to be decided by the City Council and will probably be brought up in the near future. The acceptance or rejection of the plan will probably be materially affected by the amount of money which is subscribed by graduates and friends of Harvard, as the City Council is unwilling to increase the taxes, as might be necessary if the city were to raise money for the condemnation of the buildings on the proposed parkway route...