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Soon after the Co-operative Society was started, including in its benefits as it then did the Episcopal Theological School, it was feared that by this connection it would in some way render itself liable to taxation which it would escape if it confined its operations strictly to Harvard College. It now seems that this fear was unfounded and that the society without incurring further liability can include both the Episcopal Theological School and the Annex...
...full gaze of the public, and while the fierce light of the fire plays about their ankles is, of course, unthinkable. Hence it is difficult to see how they could carry the hose-we should say water pipe-to the upper story of a building, and how they could render much service except in case of a fire confined strictly to the ground floor...
Notice is given that there will be no hot or cold water at the gymnasium on Friday and Saturday of this week. An attempt will be made to increase the heating capacity of the boiler so as to render it capable of heating water quickly enough to meet the demand made upon it between five and six o'clock in the afternoon. To effect this it will be necessary to turn off the water for the time stated above...
Each year there are a large number of students who pass the admission examinations, and the report goes on to say in this regard that, in giving these persons a thorough examination, the college renders a gratuitous service, partly to them, and partly to the schools from which they come; and it will continue freely to render this service until the labor which these examinations impose upon it becomes unreasonably heavy. Every ambitious pupil in the graduating class of a school or academy desires, for his own credit, to pass all the examinations which his comrades are passing...
...exert a most baneful influence, by its example, on the future of American veterinary medicine." This subscription plan which has been adopted is the same as the London plan of "subscriptions," by which, for a minimum sum of money per year, the school, according to Mr. Billings. Promises to render services to each subscriber which no private practitioner could afford to guarantee to do for three times the amount. He further claims that since the school belongs to a great public institution, it ought not to do what a private speculative affair like the London School has done, namely, adopt...