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...serious obstacle in this step would be the problem of dining hall accommodations for the new residents of the Yard. The Harvard Union, as it is at present or with an annex, would be unsatisfactory. The unsavory reputation of Memorial Hall as a dining hall, its distance from most Yard dormitories, its uncongenial atmosphere, and the amount of money it would take to equip it satisfactorily, seem more than to offset the advantage of having the entire class eat together. Small dining halls on the first floor of buildings like Harvard Hall, for example, present another alternative...
...under the House Plan before the report of the governing board on this matter is submitted to the Corporation. Judge F. P. Cabot '90, president of the governing board, described the main alternatives, assuming that under the House Plan Freshmen will live in the Yard, as follows: "Either an annex to the Union will be built containing the Freshman dining hall; or the Union will continue to be what it is now, a club house for graduates, commuters, and undergraduates who care to use it, and the Freshman dining hall will be built as a separate building elsewhere...
...Longfellow, 78, eldest daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by his second wife Frances Elizabeth Appleton; at the Longfellow family home, "Craigie House," in Cambridge, Mass. Miss Longfellow spent most of her life in the interest of women's education, as a founder and adviser of Radcliffe College ("Harvard Annex"). As a daughter of one of the most famed of Boston "Brahmins" her literary connections were many. She was the last survivor of a dinner party given in 1868 at Boston's old Parker House by Charles Dickens. But her memory will be most sharply recalled by the haunting...
Candidates for the business, publicity, and stage departments of the Dramatic Club will meet Wednesday at Ridgely Annex at 7 o'clock. Men who prove capable in the Club's performances this winter and next spring will be taken to the Woods Hole Theatre next summer, from which they may act in the New York theatre after leaving college. Acting candidates will sign the blue books at Leavitt and Peirce...
...loans mounted last week to $4,569,978,000, highest for all time, surpassing even the figure for June 6. Apparently undisturbed, the stock-market went about its business, saw a seat sold for a record $425,000, dickered for the adjoining 20-story Postal Telegraph building as an annex, appointed Mrs. Catherine M. Healy of Montclair, N. J., as its first woman purchasing agent...