Word: various
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...soon discovered that this was not its function; its membership was not sufficiently cohesive the common bond was not strong enough for its size and heterogeneousness. However, we were not satisfied to make the Union a mere meeting place for mass meetings, class smokers, debating clubs, committees and various other bodies. We wished to make it the great "hearth-stone of Harvard," a great centralizing force which should form all the varied activities and interests of our college world...
...Various suggestions have been made as to how we can best eat our cake, and have it too, that is to say spend more and ask for less. The most obvious of these is "for the debts to be paid off more gradually and "for the improvements to be made under borrowed money, if necessary." This proposal to lay our burdens on the future, will hardly appeal to any one who believes in a conservative management of our finances. If our present debt were to be spread over ten years, it would at that rate, take twenty years or more...
...this desire for a broadening of the horizon of sympathies, for contact between northerner, southerner, easterner and westerner, for contact between men of ideas, based upon different beliefs, traditions and trainings that is awake in every undergraduate, who is maturing as a university should mature a man. In the various activities in the University, in which men are gathered from all corners of college life in pursuit of some common object, the permanent good that results from a university standpoint is little unless they have led to an interchange of ideas and sympathies between the individuals who take part...
...given to members of the Corporation, Overseers, friends of gentlemen who are to receive honorary degrees, representatives of the press, Marshals of the different degrees, Commencement speakers and the higher members of the teaching staff. This leaves about 360, which are distributed by allotment, under the supervision of the various Deans, to candidates of the different departments of the University for their friends...
...intend to try for any of the various football elevens next fall are requested to meet in Lower Mass, at 7.15 o'clock this evening. The meeting will be short but important...