Word: rent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...same time, possible site. To tear down Dane Hall, College House or Wadsworth House is highly impracticable. In Dane Hall are the Bursar's offices and the Co-operative Society's rooms. From the stores on the first floor of College House the University receives a large annual rent, and, consequently, there is a strong economic reason why the building ought not to be destroyed in order to afford a site for a club which will pay only a nominal rent. As to Wadsworth House,-- historical associations so surround it and the ground it is on, that a proposal...
...least income of the College properties, although situated on very valuable land; and Dane Hall, aside from being a blot on the landscape, is ill-suited for recitation rooms, officers, or a store. What more natural course could suggest it self then to the Corporation than to rent one of these sites to the Union for its building. In this way the Corporation, anxious at all times to get money, could obtain as much income as it does now from the cheap rooms of College House, or from the Co operative in Dane. Aside from all this, a respectable looking...
...grievance of the city government is the existence of the Harvard Co-operative Society, a general store doing business under, what they call, circumstances of a most favorable condition. Whereas the competitors of this institution, in and about Harvard square, are obliged to pay rent on taxed property, the Co-operative does business in an untaxed building for which, it is asserted, it pays no rent...
...beginning, dormitories and dining halls have been furnished by the College for the use of the students and have been regarded as devoted to College purposes. We do not think that it means any difference in principle that the College, instead of itself furnishing board provides a place without rent or compensation in any form or a lease or any agreement for a fixed term for the use of students who club together for the purpose of obtaining for themselves with the assistance of the College, food at cost. . . . The history of the College and of the legislation relating...