Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...profitable investment-to wit, a three-million dollar institution free from taxation-could not be a bad thing for Cambridge; and accordingly they asked Technology to remove to this city, without fear, now or hereafter, of being assailed by the taxassessors. This agitation contributed greatly toward altering the public sentiment toward Harvard; for, if the best business men of Cambridge-despite the traditional clamor against Harvard's exemption-declared that it would be very desirable to increase the untaxed property by $3,000,000, the supposed case against Harvard fell to the ground...
...Cambridge Club, which is composed of the leading merchants, manufacturers, and professional men of the city, was quick to give public expression to this change of sentiment. For some time past it had wished to promote closer relations between Town and Gown, and to that end it appointed a committee, of which Mr. Henry M. Williams '85 was chairman, to confer with the Harvard authorities. At the monthly dinner of the Cambridge Club on March 20, the club had as its guests more than 40 Harvard students of the "first group," and it listened to the following report, which...
...view of the complete and most welcome change of sentiment, at a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College on March 13, 1911, it was understood that the President should notify the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that in view of the petitions from a large number of leading citizens of Cambridge asking the Institute to remove to that city, the Corporation withdraws any objection to such removal hitherto raised on the ground that the exemption from taxation of so large an amount of property in Cambridge might endanger the stability of the existing provisions relieving...
...examinations is that of inculcating a sense of honor in the participants, there may be something said for banishing the proctor; and we may even welcome the evidence, which is doubtless trustworthy, that in some colleges where cheating has been rife and where there has been practically no public sentiment against it, the introduction of the honor system has apparently brought the student body to a healthier state of mind and conscience on the subject. But the object of supervising an examination is to enable the College to satisfy itself of the integrity of that examination, and to certify accordingly...
...black for buttons which would not infringe upon the design of the Senior buttons, the Freshman committee has decided to have none made this year. The original intention was to have the buttons orange and black and to keep these colors during all of the four years. If the sentiment of the class warrants them, buttons will be made at the beginning of next year...