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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...track captain for next year will be elected today after the taking of the picture of the team, which is scheduled for 12.30 o'clock at Notman's Studio. The choice will be made from among the following Juniors who have won their letters: Alexander Biddle '16, W. J. Bingham '16, G. G. Haydock '16, J. O. Johnstone '16, W. W. Kent '16, and L. G. Richards...
Sparkling among the reforms for 1915-16 that ought to be seized and hoisted to a practical plane is that which calls for the substitution of electric vacuum cleaners for the brooms that have heretofore and hitherto been strangled in the grasp of the college goodies. A new broom sweeps clean, it is granted, but the argument peters out with that concession. Whereas a vacuum cleaner not only sweeps clean but it carries away the dust in its carburetor or gas bag or whatever the receptacle is officially dubbed. That is the sharp point in favor of the cleaner...
...various undertakings in mission work which have given the University the foremost position among the colleges of this country in this field of endeavor, the Harvard Medical School of China is the most significant. Founded in Shanghai, China, precisely at the moment of the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, at a time when the whole Chinese Empire was in a state of turmoil and strife, the School has grown steadily until it now occupies an excellent group of buildings supplied free of rent by the Chinese Red Cross Society. The unsettled condition of the country at the time...
...gradual betterment of hygienic conditions throughout the Republic during the last few years, and also the authorities are increasing their hold upon the numerous contagious diseases which have ravaged the country. When considering how well the School is effecting these last two purposes it must be remembered that, among China's 400,000,000 people, there are now a few less than 650 trained physicians. One physician for the whole of Boston! Of hospitals, there are about 250, averaging 35 beds each which is about one hospital for every 1,650,000 people, and none of them are equipped...
...South America. Up until a few years ago the only significant collection in this country of the laws and legal writings of the southern republics was at the Library of Congress in Washington. In the spring of 1913, however, an opportunity presented itself whereby the Law School now stands among the first of american institutions in the collection of South American juris-prudence. The opportunity came through a trip to South America by Dr. Lichtenstein on a book hunting expedition for another institution, since he agreed to buy whatever books he could for the Law Library. Dr. Lichtenstein...