Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...More than two years ago Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology entered into an agreement for co-operative instruction in certain scientific subjects, to be conducted out of the income of the Gordon McKay Endowment. It is generally known that the Harvard Corporation has filed with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts a bill for instructions to determine whether the income from this endowment can be used as the Agreement provides. The general situation may be summarized as follows...
...Endowment directs that, after the payment of certain annuities, the property shall be paid to the University and the net income used by it to promote applied science 'by maintaining professorships, workshops, laboratories and collections for any or all of those scientific subjects which have or may hereafter have application useful to man,' and by aiding needy students in pursuing those subjects. The request is made that the name 'Gordon McKay' shall be permanently attached to the purposes for which the income is expended. There is no requirement that the income shall be expended for any particular department...
...season's outlook for the gymnastic team is very promising, although only two point winners of last year are back, Captain W. Campbell '16 and D. Campbell '17, manager. The most serious loss is that of M. F. Gates '15, a consistent performer and certain point winner last season. Three other men lost through graduation are H. F. Ballantine '15, R. G. McPhail '15, and P. M. Symonds '15. A great deal will depend upon the work of the two Campbell brothers. Both are equally skilful on the horizontal and parallel bars, and W. Campbell is a good performer...
There are certain noises which are inherent to the Library, I suppose, and which we will bear with, such as the musical notes of the steam pipes, the ceaseless tread of studious feet, or even the frequent invasions of murmuring visitors. But why not take radical steps, by means of new Library legislation, to suppress the alarming spread of the Forum to the precincts of the reading room? A. REEDER...
Dean Briggs and Dean McClenahan of Princeton will meet Professor Corwin at New Haven this evening, at Professor Corwin's invitation. As the chairmen of the Yale, Princeton and Harvard elegibility delegations, they will discuss certain matters not quite cleared up at former conferences. It is impossible to announce the exact subjects of the discussion...