Word: stewardship
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Again this year the report of President Lowell is notable not so much for the account it renders of a Harvard stewardship as it is for the distinguished contribution it makes to current educational discussion. The pronouncement that members of the Faculty are not entitled to representation on the University governing boards is perhaps out of tune with the newer note in educational administration, but it is sound doctrine just the same, and it is doctrine which needs to be often set fourth in these days when there is much loose talk about, "the natural antagonisms of professors and trustees...
...generation, to regard wealth as at best a doubtful blessing; and, especially in its organized accumulations, as an unmixed evil. Now no one can deal candidly with the teaching of Jesus Christ without realizing that He was the revealer of principles for the guidance of human stewardship, not the propounder of microscopic rules for its daily regulation. He has taught us to face money in the strength of a great principle, and not in the pettiness of a mere rule. And so, wealth, whether you possess it or desire it is yours to desire, to employ, to enjoy...
...board was as low as $4.00, averaging for the year only $4.03 1-3. Since then, it has been on the steady increase,-4.06 2-3, 4.11 1-3, 4.46 2-3, 4.84 2-3, 4,48;-up to June '83. Then followed a change in the stewardship, Mr. J. J. Sullivan, taking the place of Mr. Balch, who had been steward since Jan. 1876. Last year, 1883-4, saw a decided improvement in the board, service and prices. The board for the year averages only $4.12. This was certainly a long stride in the right direction. The first flgures...
...prices of board for the six years of Mr. Balch's service as steward were: $4.48 1-3, $4.03 1-3, $4.06 2-3, $4.11 1-3, $4.46 2-3 and $4.84 2-3. During the third of a year just passed, the first term of Mr. Sullivan's stewardship, the price has been...