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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Sixteen men came out yesterday afternoon for the spring football practice. The work was very light, consisting of falling on the ball and starting. Captain Dibblee and F. D. Cochrane '99 coached the candidates in the preliminary practice, which was followed by a short run. Coach Forbes was also present, but merely watched the work...
...four years it has been distinct in the Lawrence Scientific School the Department has grown steadily but under rather adverse conditions. The little house on Holmes Field beside being inconveniently situated provides very cramped and unsatisfactory quarters. It is improbable, however, that any change can be made at present as lack of funds is a positive check in this instance. In regard to the future of the Department it is felt that a training in architecture, as in other professions, should in most cases preferably come after the gaining of a degree, and that it should be more...
That the President and Fellows are in the best position to judge the desirability of such a plan is undoubted, they are in closer touch with all that is of present or future importance to the University than any of the Governing Boards. Notwithstanding, there is much in the plans of the committee which, we believe, would prove of lasting benefit to the University. Even if it is undesirable that a complete scheme for the future development of the College property should be formulated, even if the future needs of the College in the way of buildings cannot be outlined...
...fact that the Corporation have certain definite ideas as to the future possibilities of the property, but since few know what they are, the frequent criticism is that the Corporation have nothing in mind but questions of present economy and convenience. We should therefore urge that some plan for the development of the present property be publicly adopted. Then if future bequests or the conditions on which money is given should render it expedient to depart from this plan, opportune rather than tardy criticism would be insured and greater forethought exercised...
...meeting these objections the report of the Committee to the Board of Overseers first argued "that while it is easy to understand why the Corporation should object to discussion about lands remote from the present property, it can do no harm to suggest such approaches as it might be expected the public spirit of the city would supply as a part of their park system, or to form conjectures as to the improvement of the present grounds, if contiguous property, that everybody knows the college would gladly own, were obtained...