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...appreciate the relation between the work and the man. In the year 1869 in which he entered the office of President of the University, Harvard College graduated one hundred and eleven men, and the other departments combined, one hundred and sixty-four; when he retired in 1909, a thousand degrees were granted each Commencement. His activity in public and educational service since then we know better. It is the half a lifetime devoted to the University from its presidential chair that should be recalled and honored on his eightieth birthday...
...most their own and two or three others, to ponder on the fact that the official work of the University is divided into thirty-four branches, of which the College is only one; and then to think of the multitudinous student activities, formal and informal, and the five thousand individuals who go to make up Harvard. Is there any wonder that no satisfactorily comprehensive impression of it has ever been written? It demands more than an every-day confessions for the man who shall write its Comedie Humaine...
...twelve students and a faculty of six physicians. Now, the number of students has been doubled; there are ten men on the faculty; and there is a plant valued at $100,000, soon to be enlarged by a modern hospital. The immediate plans and needs are many. Thirty thousand dollars is required to purchase the site for a new hospital, the building itself being paid for by an anonymous gift of $50,000. A further sum is needed for the establishment of an out-patient clinic for the Chinese in a thickly settled quarter. It is also planned...
...Directory is a great improvement over the last one published. It contains several thousand more names, and the compilers have been able to trace many of the men whose addresses were previously unknown. The volume contains 1,660 pages and includes 35,194 names, with addresses for all but 1,197. The names include those of all students and former students now living, as do former Directories, but a list of officers of the University who have never studied in the University is also included in this edition. Of the men entered 21,780 are graduates of the University...
...almost a necessity. This may or may not be theoretically right, but it is an important practical consideration. In the second place, a University should offer opportunities for the development of a well-rounded man, a man both physically and mentally strong. When, then, the hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars shown by the report plus the twelve thousand or so for the upkeep of Hemenway Gymnasium are placed beside the two and a half million odd expended yearly in the operation of the University, far from disproportionately large for athletics. They seem unusually reasonable. At least the body...