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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this optimistic era of increased industry and large earnings the number and amounts of gifts have been in proper proportion to the remarkable prosperity of this country. Never before have wealthy Americans, who have accumulated many times an ordinary fortune during the last two years, made such liberal donations to educational and charitable institutions. Columbia University shocked the public when President Butler asked for the modest sum of thirty million dollars. Already nearly two thirds of this amount has been promised and the remainder is practically assured. Other colleges and universities all over the country are asking for gifts...
Modern buildings, proper lecture rooms and comfortable dormitories are all necessary, but they are unimportant compared to the character and standard of the University's teaching staff. The most humble and unpretentious of colleges enjoys a world-wide reputation if its faculty is composed of the best educational minds the country can boast of. Harvard has for years been noted for the great teachers and scholars which are numbered among her professors. During the last decade many of her most renowned and valuable professors have been lost for unavoidable reasons. Harvard must fill the vacancies made by the loss...
...University is the program announced this morning by the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee. The formation of this Committee and the launching of its campaign come as a result of the constantly increasing financial needs of the University without a corresponding increase in resources. The want of money for proper laboratory and scientific equipment, and for the payment of sufficient salaries to the corps of instructors led to the formal consideration of the problem by the Alumni Association and adoption of the following resolution, after conference with the President and Fellows...
Yale defeats at the hands of Harvard will never become a habit without the active support of the undergraduate body at every game. There has not been proper support given the team this fall, and only a giant effort today and next Saturday will convince Captain Dadmun's men that they are really fighting for Harvard rather than for some university for the education of the dumb...
...great many atheists and kindred folk who normally look upon all religious impulse as folly, consider Mr. Sunday's work constructive because it awakens a dormant moral sense in thousands. Amid such diverse views we cannot dogmatically define the man. No doubt the wisest opinion would be that the proper adjective to describe him is "indeterminable"--whatever that...