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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston Elevated Railway Company is making extraordinary efforts to handle successfully the crowds that are expected to pour into the Stadium today. Between the hours of 12 o'clock and 1.30, and 4 and 5.30 o'clock the service will be increased 200 to 300 per cent. Cars will be run out of the Park street terminal as quickly as possible, and cars from Copley square will join them in an effort to take care of the crowds from the Back Bay. Heavy service will also be arranged for the Beverly street and Western avenue lines...
...Library of Harvard University", recently issued, shows that within the last few years, the collections which make up the University Library have greatly increased. Gore Hall now contains over 564,000 books and nearly 400,000 pamphlets, making a growth since 1903 of 160,000 volumes, or 40 per cent. The whole University Library now has the large total of over 980,000 volumes and 600,000 pamphlets, or a grand total of nearly...
...dividend rate this year will be 9 per cent., as last year, and will involve a disbursement of between $18,500 and $19,000. This dividend was made possible through the fact that about 45 per cent. of the total business of the Co-operative was transacted with non-members who do not share in the profits. During the past year the sales to members have been...
Episcopalians come first with 32 per cent. of the total number of men registered, having almost twice as many as any other denomination; Unitarians are second with 17 per cent.; Congregationalists are third with 14.7 per cent.; and Catholics fourth with 14.5 per cent. The complete list is as follows: Episcopalians 150, Unitarians 84, Congregationalists 73, Catholics 72, Hebrews 38, Baptists 21, Methodists 20, Presbyterians 15, Lutherans 8, Universalists 7, Christian Scientists 5, Unprofessed...
...some interesting figures upon the way in which the members of the class of 1914 have mapped out their plans of study for three years' work according to the new grouping requirements put in force last year. Concentration in the field of History, Government and Economics attracted 45 per cent, of the class, while 30 per cent, is specializing in Languages, Literature, Art and Music. While only two per cent of the class has elected to do major work in Philosophy and Mathematics, it is the group in which more than in any other, men have planned to take...