Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerable time to the completed future project, and not allow objections to the cost on the part of the University to be sufficient cause for waiving a better plan. Objections of such sort can be diplomatically overcome. The Student Council committee has shown rare wisdom is insisting on the proper procedure. Although their rough sketch shows defects (for instance, the chapel would probably be better situated where the second housing unit is planned, and an octagon might prove more suitable for the lot on which the fourth unit is to go, since there must be ready access...
...What 'the graduate' who wrote the letter states may be all very true. . . . Harvard does need a new gymnasium, and she needs a library and a host of other things; Harvard has not enough money to take proper care of the buildings she now has. . . . Harvard has no fairy godmother to slip round millions into her hands every other month. Yet in spite of this she seems to get on pretty well, staying near the head of the procession for the past three hundred years. . . . Whenever Harvard needed anything in the years gone by, a friend has always been found...
...collection, no matter how valuable, is extremely difficult of comprehension by students, and indeed the interest which the intelligent public can take in it is greatly diminished. Again, the many duplicates, indestructible, and other objects, which for one reason or another are not on display, are, for lack of proper storage facilities, tucked away in boxes and corners in which they are entirely inaccessible. These could be utilized for laboratory and class room teaching. If the specimens were properly labelled, students who have been conducted about by an instructor and who are now, at the end of an hour, almost...
...outside scientists and with other institutions and museums, which are essential to progress, have been very largely allowed to drop. The Museum has relapsed into a state of isolation which is regrettable. The reciprocal loans for purposes of study, which are universal among museums, should now be encouraged, under proper precautions, and every effort should be made to enlist the interest of as large a number of persons as possible. The staff, are ready and anxious to undertake the rearrangement and labelling but they felt it was beyond their power unless they could be provided with trained assistance and working...
...residence. It is a Grecian marble treasure house, enclosing two lofty rooms of sombre Renaissance magnificence. One contains the great financier's desk, with a paper weight impossible for a child to lift because it is of pure massy gold. The other room is the library proper, with a huge hearth, on either side of which stand ancient columns of lapis lazuli. Around the library runs an overhanging gallery; and the walls are tiered with volumes more precious than gold itself. The effect is solemn and unostentatious, since where all is priceless nothing can obtrude in garish splendor. Here...