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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Kuhnemann is Rector of the Royal Prussian Academy at Posen, Germany, that is to say, he occupies a position similar to that of an American university president. He is the author of the most significant complete biography of Schiller, and his reputation as an inspiring orator has been confirmed by people who have heard him speak in New York, Chicago and other large cities of this country...
...price of tution for those who are actually to profit by it, instead of appealing to the generosity of those who are long out of College? If, as has sometimes been said, it is humiliating to a student to solicit money from another for any purpose, what can we say of the conduct of Bishop Lawrence, Mr. Higginson, Mr. Bacon and others...
...called upon to face a new situation. It is a futile waste of time to discuss now the wisdom of building the Stadium. Few, at least of the undergraduates, would maintain that the gift of the class of '79 should have been refused by the Committee, not to say the Corporation, on account of the additional expense it has entailed. Thanks to this expense, and to the feeling of the Committee that one of its first duties is to pay its debts as rapidly as is well possible, our surplus has practically disappeared. At the same time, expenses...
Various suggestions have been made as to how we can best eat our cake, and have it too, that is to say spend more and ask for less. The most obvious of these is "for the debts to be paid off more gradually and "for the improvements to be made under borrowed money, if necessary." This proposal to lay our burdens on the future, will hardly appeal to any one who believes in a conservative management of our finances. If our present debt were to be spread over ten years, it would at that rate, take twenty years or more...
...long time, and are worthy attempts. But they do not go to the root of the difficulty, and it is the conviction that they do not go to the root of the difficulty, and it is the conviction that they do not which has prompted you to say in your editorial that there is a "dormitory situation." But I submit that your view, that the Corporation build in the Yard an expensive dormitory of modern construction and conveniences, does not begin to meet the evil squarely; and the evil must be met squarely, even at a great sacrifice. A remedy...