Word: boston
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Information Bureau is now open, in Phillips Brooks House, besieged by new students and busily answering questions less whimsical than "Why is Yale?" --Boston Globe...
...county, and city, or other Community, should subscribe a total equal to five per cent. of its population, and the plan has been enthusiastically received. New York is expected to show its customary practical generosity; the Atlanta Rotary Club has promised that its home city shall not fall behind; Boston, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia have each established goals of $50,000; Seattle has asked to be put down for $25,000, and Spokane, Wash., will contribute $10,000, and Portland...
...Wendell was born in Boston, December 5, 1860, but spent his youth in New York City. He entered the University with the class of 1882 and attained early prominence by running the 100-yard dash in the fall track games in 10 1-4 seconds, one half second faster than the previous record. It was due to his enthusiasm and energy that the first University track team was formed the following spring, and he was captain of it all four years he was in College. In the spring of 1881 he ran the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat...
...meeting the following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Francis G. Peabody '69, of Cambridge; vice-president, the Reverend Augustus M. Lord '83, of Providence, R. L.; secretary-treasurer, the Reverend Pitt Dillingham, of Boston; executive committee, the Reverend Edwin M. Slocombe, of Augusts, Me., the Reverend Clarence S. Pond, of Reverly, and Dean W. W. Fenn '84, president and secretary of the association, ex-office...
...which are being given in the Graduate School of Business Administration began last Monday. One of these on "Ordnance Stores Keeping," is given by Naval Constructor F. G. Coburn, Mr. H. H. Farquhar and others. The other is on "Military Cost Inspection," and is being given by accountants from Boston firms...