Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a definite pledge regarding operations with their property, while the city can make only an unofficial agreement to cooperate with the universities' plans for closing and widening streets. But according to Mayor Quinn that is all that can be done under the law, so that however cordial the present Cambridge administrators may be toward institutional policies they feel unable to pledge their successors to any definite course...
...more practical side of the question it is clear that $50,000,000 worth of tax-exempt property presents an acute financial problem to Cambridge. Taxes are pushed up not only for the business and industrial interests but for all the residents of the city, who include the great majority of the Harvard teaching body. Toward alleviating this burden the University has done everything possible in past years to cooperate with the municipal authorities. In 1902 when the University had occasion to widen De Wolfe Street, President Eliot remarked that from then on Harvard had no intentions of attempting...
...relics were excavated in back of the present Harvard Hall. Among them are bricks of odd shapes, one of them an oval ornament for a window, a run flint, the bone handle of a lady's parasol, a broken barometer, and fragments of the long clay pipes that were in vogue in the heyday of the old building...
...Nichols '26 and R. H. Field '26, presidents of the CRIMSON for 1926. The funds were originally intended to supply three cups, the last of which has just been won by the Choate, News, but a residue and the accumulated interest has left enough money to present a fourth cup. The 1926 editors have requested the competition to be continued another year and it is expected that a contest will get underway in the near future. Although the competition has been limited in the past to those school newspapers belonging to the School Newspaper Federation, it is probably that...
...destruction of the present power house will of course, necessitate the erection of a new plant, for which the University is now drawing up plans. the site of the new structure, which will be on land already held by the University, has not yet been definitely decided upon, but the most probable location is that to the east of the Business School, back from the Charles River...