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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would not stop his business to read about it. But the founding of a University Press at Harvard, like that at Oxford, or like our own, should be of striking interest to both. The Harvard Press is for the publication of books. It is to carry on the small publishing work done by the Publication Office of that University, and it will care for more. The Press will give the public the books by Harvard professors, who can now have the advantage of local and efficient publishers. But this is the least of the Press. To undergraduates its books...
...system of starting spring practice with a small squad of selected men proved very efficient last year, and gave the coach much better opportunity to give individual attention to the men than had been possible when they were called out indiscriminately...
...work now done by the small plant in the basement of University Hall, such as the printing of examinations, reports, catalogues and various pamphlets, will be undertaken by the new Press, in addition to as much book printing as can be handled...
...year this afternoon when it meets the Phillips Academy team at Andover. As the Andover team has not yet had a try-out, a comparison of the two teams is practically impossible; but judging from the practice meet held last year which the University team won by a small margin, the teams appear to be evenly matched...
President Quincy in 1837 spoke of Gore Hall as the principal ornament of the College square, and expected that but a small portion of what we now call Gore Hall would be of "sufficient capacity to contain the probable accumulation of books during the present century." As we watch the derricks pulling down the walls of this intellectual Bastile we wonder in a somewhat patronizing air at President Quincy's quaint taste and short-sighted expectations. Let us forget his taste, and think about his short-sightedness. He made his mistake in judgment because he could not see our modern...