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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...creating a Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University undertakes to do its share in meeting what is believed to be a growing need for efficient and systematic business training, and it plans this service to the community in the spirit which animates its general scheme of professional education. The new school is to be a graduate department like the other Harvard professional schools; and the specialized training for a business career which it will give, on the analogy of the Law School and the Medical School, rests on the basis of a liberal education. College graduates only will...
...just as effective as an ill-willed noise in keeping a man awake; and as sleep is of such vital importance to the teams, we ask every man to make a point first of keeping quiet himself and second, of reminding anyone else, stranger of friend, who may need the hint, of the necessity of quiet for the sake of the teams. L. P. DODGE. C. R. LEONARD. J. RICHARDSON...
...Harvard alone in the movement. All the colleges are beginning to realize that, much as we need intercollegiate athletics, we need something more, in order to put athletics in general on a proper footing. Dr. Born, speaking for Yale, points out that the intercollegiate athlete is physically away ahead of the average student (a strong argument in itself for intercollegiate athletics), and that by more general participation the physical vigor of the whole student body will be increased. The Daily Princetonian, voicing the Princeton undergraduate sentiment, says: "We do not believe intercollegiate contests to be harmful, but rather a most...
...Fifthly, the unit of area for taxation is so defined geographically that a just system of taxation has in many cases become impossible, and great wastes in the various branches of the city administration are inevitable." One of the most important causes is that "the practices of corporations that need public franchises have been often corrupt." And finally, "legislative remedies for these evils have been hindered by a false theory that a city ought to be an independent entity managing all its own affairs, and accepting neither aid nor control from the state...
Side by side with the crying need for a new gymnasium stands the necessity of more improved land for the promotion of our ever-growing intracollegiate athletics. The increasing interest that has been taken of late in that kind of sport is a most healthy manifestation, which deserves, in the estimation of the most ardent supporter or the most vehement opponent of intercollegiate athletics, every possible encouragement. And yet, of Soldiers, Field only 24 acres, or less than half of its total area, are available for use. The cricket team was driven out of existence by the pressure of other...