Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...single bit of literary criticism is Mr. Addison's rather severely temperate but discerning appreciation of the writings of Mr. A. C. Benson. An editorial warmly endorses the suggestion of placeing a memorial tablet or a bust of Professor Shaler in the Union; and the number closes with the resolutions drawn up by the four college periodicals whereby they have joined together in subscribing to a fund for this purpose, "to which all undergraduates and graduates are urged to subscribe...
...subscribers to this fund have left the designation of its use to the undersigned committee; and the committee, after consideration of various projects, concludes that the memorial object of the fund will be best attained--first, by setting aside a sum with which the Corporation shall procure a memorial tablet to be put in the Geological section of the University Museum, or some other suitable place as may be designated by the Corporation; and second, by using the income of the balance of the fund for the benefit of the Division of Geology, in support of original research...
...recent meeting of the Corporation the Treasurer reported the receipt, through Mr. Charles C. Jackson, Treasurer of the John Homans Memorial Fund, of $50,000 to establish the John Homans Professorship in Surgery, and of an additional sum for the erection of a tablet in one of the Medical School Buildings. The offer of this gift was accepted at a meeting of the Corporation last spring...
Beneath the monument to President James Walker '14, which was placed in the porch of Appleton Chapel last summer, there has recently been placed a bronze tablet bearing the following inscription by the congregation who gave the monument: "Given to Harvard College by the Harvard Church in Charlestown on Its Dissolution...
...poor"; are not a little depressing. "The government of a University," says ex-Dean Briggs, "cannot with safety be entrusted to students; they are harsher than their elders and less just to persons whom they dislike." For my part, I would rather be caught, at twenty, lifting a bronze tablet out of Brooks House, than clamoring in the College papers for harsher punishment for a fellow student. The former offense is evidence of profound indiscretion, but is not inconsistent with honor or the noblest qualities. It shows misapprehension of some things, but not necessarily a corrupted character. Is punishment...