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...following Intercollegiate Civic League article on "The National Department of Commerce and Labor" is written by Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of that department. Mr. Straus was born in Atterberg, Rhenish Bavaria, but came to this country early in life. His first important diplomatic office after his graduation from Columbia was his appointment in 1887 by President Cleveland as United States Minister to Turkey. He was elected a member of the permanent court of arbitration at the Hague six years ago, and entered his present position last year...
...demonstration was under the management of the Hughes Club. Governor Hughes came to Boston yesterday afternoon, and besides the short speech to Harvard men, he addressed the New England Dry Goods Association in Tremont Temple, and the Brown University Alumni Association at the American House in the evening, leaving for Albany about midnight...
...days after his arrival in Berlin, he said, there came up the question of how he and President Hadley, Roosevelt lecturer in Berlin this year, should appear before the University publicly; whether one should take precedence or both should appear on the same occasion. The question was finally settled in the latter way. The gathering at which they were introduced was a notable one through the presence of the Crown Prince and other members of the royal family and the professors of the university...
Yesterday came the announcement like a flash from a clear sky that the three Deans are no longer to be ex officiis members of the Athletic Committee, but that "three members of the faculty of arts and Sciences" are to be "appointed by the Corporation with the consent of the Overseers." This virtually means that the recommendation of the Joint committee on the regulation of Athletic Sports, after less than a year's trial; is to be partially, if not absolutely ignored. The "standing rules and orders of the President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers, concerning the regulation...
...White, of New York, as to the advisability of placing a clock on University Hall. Owing to the illness of Mr. McKim it was not possible to secure his opinion until late last month, when he approved the plan. However, after examining the detailed design of the clock, which came last week, the Corporation voted against placing a clock on University Hall for fear that it might deface the building. In view of this action, the committee felt that it was now too late after the John Harvard celebration to begin work again on a new form of a memorial...