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...concluding portion of his report, the President briefly explains the financial policy of the Corporation. That policy is to spend every year all available resources. To avoid deficits invariably would mean to aim deliberately at an annual surplus, and to keep sufficient reserves to guarantee that annual surplus. This cautious policy, which is appropriate to an industrial or commercial establishment, the President and Fellows think not to be best in an educational and charitable institution. Accordingly they believe that the University should be conducted as a grow- ing, changing, expanding organization, losing here, but gaining there, and always turning...
...Boylston street. The bridge contemplated will be a drawless structure of wood, sixty feet wide. The cost, which is estimated at $100,000, is to be divided equally between the cities of Boston and Cambridge. The height of the bridge over the channel will be twenty-six feet above mean high water, and will necessitate raising the present grade of the street...
...municipal government. For a high standard to be possible in our heterogeneously populated cities Mr. Shepard said that these two principles must be adhered to--both in conflict with certain ideas of Puritanic reform: first, that partisanship should be maintained and strengthened in municipal politics,--always assuming that partisanship mean not service of party as an end, but the holding of party as a means to carry out policies for the general good; second, that municipal government should be a rule of order and liberty, rather than of order and constraint. There should be two parties in municipal politics...
...only. This injury to the minority has been necessary for the welfare of the greater majority, but even such injury has been transient and intermittent. Trade unionism strives to secure for the working man his natural rights; to deny these by peaceable evolution--the method employed by unionism--would mean their attainment by violent revolution. The working man loves to be happy and a good citizen; trade unionism has made the mass of working men more happy. There is the same principle in trade unionism as in democracy--the free consent of the governed...
...tone of the editorial in Monday's CRIMSON was so extraordinary that I should like to express what I feel so strongly that I am sure that others must feel it too. I do not mean to discuss the "niceness" of dealing out editorial sarcasms--practically personal in one paragraph--to amateur athletes. But I should like to protest against the composition of more communications and editorials of the variety that has been so common this autumn, and of which Monday's article was an exaggerated instance. Let me identify further what I mean by quoting two sentences which...