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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Springfield, for instance, offered to give all the land required, besides pledging perpetual exemption from taxation. The citizens of Cambridge were not slow to conclude that what Springfield regarded as a most 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...
...with the second suggestion-to get more closely in touch with new students without acquaintances in Cambridge. Such an affair would be a great pleasure and lead to better acquaintance and be a benefit both to the citizens and to the students. The committee on hospitality is a thing near to the heart of the deans. Dean Briggs is heartily in favor...
...College's offer had absolutely nothing to do with the bills on taxation before the legislature. The work of the committee was begun in September, and the matter was threshed out by January before the Myers bills were drawn up. The whole thing was voluntary on the part of the College and in the meetings of the committees taxation was practically tabooed from the very start. The club's endorsement of the recommendations was unanimous, and, on motion of Stoughton Bell, a vote of thanks was extended to the committee for its work...
...power of the workingman is being constantly undermined and will be found woefully lacking when war faces the country. Great Britain has had experience which has proved that capital is destroying the power of the nation, and we are facing a great crisis which may teach us the same thing, unless we profit by her examples and take steps to avert...
There is also a summary of the annual post card canvass on college courses. The most interesting thing about it is the invariable appearance of Professor Palmer's Phil. 4 at the head of the list. The next most interesting thing is a remark on the editorial page that "the more notorious snap courses are all noticeably low down." The sooner the student body learns from its own experience that choosing a course merely because it is a "snap" is an uninteresting and unpleasant as well as an unprofitable adventure, the better for all concerned...