Word: uses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...text books gathered up will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library for the use of poor students, which now numbers over 4,000 volumes. The other material will be sent to various charitable institutions such as the American Red Cross, the Associated Charities of Cambridge, and the Tuskegee Institute of Tuskegee...
...members of the University who expect to make use of the new temporary gymnasium in Randolph Court when it opens in a week or ten days should apply for lockers as soon as possible. Arrangement has been made for receiving applications at the office of the director, Matthews 31, from 2 to 5 o'clock daily. The lockers will be assigned in order of application, and the number is limited...
What seems undeniable is that the immediate interests of the community, in fact of the whole country, would best have been served had the McKay endowment been discovered available for use in the way agreed upon by Harvard and by Technology. There would not be wisdom, it has thus far appeared, in building up side by side in Cambridge, two great schools of technical science and engineering, one on the Charles and one at Harvard square...
...litigation before the Massachusetts Supreme Court in regard to the disposition of the $22,000,000 Gordon McKay Fund was brought to a close yesterday afternoon by the decision of the court in favor of the trustees of the estate. The trustees objected to the use which the University made of the $5,500,000 received by it, and maintained that the intention of Mr. McKay was being defeated by carrying on the engineering courses under the roof of Technology instead of in the buildings and under the sole direction of the University...
...giving a part of this fund to the use of M. I. T., the University acted on the ground that while Technology is not a part of the University to the extent that the other departments are, it is virtually the Harvard School of Applied Science carried on at Tech. Another reason for this action is the fact that the equipment of the University is not adequate for the best kind of a scientific school, and especially one which would be set up in the vicinity of another already successfully established on the same lines. The purpose of the University...