Word: money
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University has been growing constantly in buildings, equipment, and quality and variety of instruction, although the number of its students has not increased greatly in the last decade. Moreover, the value of money has been diminishing. A Harvard education costs the University more than it' did formerly; and it is only just that the students should bear a part of this additional expense. The increase in tuition will put the University on a sound financial basis; and gifts may now be used for further improvements. Both undergraduates and graduates should feel that only a stern necessity led to the step...
...reduction of expenditure, city planning conferences were formed, but these soon outgrew their utility by accumulating such independ- ence that they caused over-expenditure. We now have an expert who makes surveys of various localities, and looks into their needs. Associated with this is the new principle of borrowing money only for permanent improvements. These two factors have, by centralizing our expenses, so materially decreased our borrowing that there have been but two loans necessary during the present administration...
...lack of money, but the lack of general interest and co-operation is the cause of our failure. Millions of dollars will not avail unless all members of the University, led by the Faculty, join enthusiastically to make the Union a genuinely fraternal and democratic social centre...
...performance will be given this evening, open only to graduate or undergraduate members of the club. "The Fattest Calf" is a two-act musical comedy dealing with the adventures of some members of the Hasty Pudding show on a tour, who become stranded in a rustic town without their money. The second act act is a modernized version of Shake speare's "Merchant of Venice," the burlesque taking its name from the fact that Shylock takes a mortgage on Antonio's fattest calf instead of the conventional pound of flesh. Portia's defense is grounded on the claim that...
President Lowell has received a letter from the headquarters of the Belgian Red Cross in La Panne, where a large part of the Belgian army is now located, acknowledging the receipt of one of the five motor ambulances for which the money was raised here early in the winter...