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...bust of James Russell Lowell '38, by Daniel C. French, has been offered by the class of '83 as a gift to the University. This bust will be placed on the northern side of Massachusetts Hall, opposite the entrance to Harvard Hall, in a niche formed by the closing of two small windows. C. F. McKim h.'90, will design the pedestal and bench of marble on which the bust is to rest. The bench will also be used as a place from which the head marshal may form the procession of classes on Commencement...
Gore Hall was broken into on Friday night, and the marble bust of Washington, which stood in the Reading Room at the head of the stairs, was taken from its pedestal and carried off. A second attempt to enter the Library was made Saturday night--according to the evidences, by a different set of thieves--but without success. Both attempts were made on one of the ground-floor windows...
...President Eliot's recent trip to Buffalo and Cleveland, together with complete stenographic reports of his speeches at each place. A report of the service in memory of Phillips Brooks, which was held at Trinity Church, Boston, last Friday, illustrated by reproductions from photographs of Brooks House and the bust of Philips Brooks by Hugh Cairns, is also printed. An article on the Rhodes Scholarships conference which was held in University Hall on Saturday and a number of reports of local activities complete the issue...
These carved panels, these mantel-pieces and coats of arms at either end of the hall as well as the brass wreath in the floor yonder are gifts of various graduates, students, and friends. The bust of John Harvard is the work and the gift of the distinguished sculptor, Mr. Daniel C. French, and the bust of Washington together with the eagle and the staghorns we have from the hands of our great architect...
...Lees Knowles, M.P. spoke in behalf of the Oxford and Cambridge men, and expressed his gratification at seeing the bust of John Harvard, a graduate of Emanuel College, Cambridge. After referring to the strictly amateur stand taken by the Oxford and Cambridge athletes, who came to America without even a professional trainer, he expressed the hope that Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale might stand out as an example to all colleges in clean athletic sports. The words of Washington, inscribed beneath his bust in the Union, are appropriate in this: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise...