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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Seldom could one find among the members of one college faculty four men more admirably fitted to act as specialists in such an undertaking than Professors Haskins, Coolidge, Dixon and Lord. Their combined knowledge embraces four of the most important questions that will have to be decided at the coming conference: Alsace-Lorraine, Russia, Poland the Balkans and the Far East...
There are many original editions and manuscripts in the collection, among which are Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1632, a letter from Dickens to Thackeray and the latter's reply, Robert Louis Stevenson's autobiography in handwriting, and manuscripts of Robert Burns, Illuminated books of the fifteenth century, and the first edition of the Decameron novels of Boccaccio are also a part of the collection...
...influenza epidemic which again broke out quite recently is now declining rapidly. Among those who have been sick are Lieutenants Sullivan, Althouse, Schouten and Knox...
Last Friday representatives of the Cosmopolitan Club and of the national clubs of the University held an executive meeting. Definite plans were made to advance the cosmopolitan spirit among the American and foreign students of the University...
...spontaneous reception which this proposal met at the hands of the University met at the hands of the University men is shown by the fact that in the course of about two hours time on Monday afternoon, eighty men out of eighty-five approached, signed the paper. Among these are men of the S. A. T. C., the Naval Unit, three Chinese, and representatives from India, Armenia, and the Phillipines. Three of the men who did not sign desired to consider the matter further before signing; one was not sufficiently familiar with the subject to justify his signature...