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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Science is so near to us that we cannot see it in proper perspective, we hear little about the McKay endowment which made possible the continuance of that branch of the University as a strictly graduate department. Mr. McKay's original gift of $500,000 on the expiration of certain annuities will as a conservative estimate accumulate to twelve million dollars. It is now rendering an annual income of about $200,000. Mr. McKay's purpose, as stated in his will, was to further a study of all the sciences useful to man, and it seems probable that the generosity...
...games between picked teams of the squad, and one against the Freshman have been played, little definite can be said concerning the battery and 17 fielding candidates still retained. Out of the number of pitching candidates Felton and Hitchcock have stood out especially so far, and it is practically certain that either Reeves of last year's team or Young of the team two years ago will catch...
...Lecture. "Certain Topics in the Hygiene of Women," by Dr. C. M. Green '74, at the Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston. Open only to women...
...Copper Pot" is a typical Advocate story, telling how husband and wife, each deciding on the same gift for the other, bid feverishly for a certain copper pot, and discover late in the proceedings the identity of the rival bidder...
...engineer, then, has no limit to the possibilities of his profession. There are many positions to be filled, many directions to which inventive genius may be directed. The successful aspirant must possess certain rare qualities. He must have perfect industrial training, must be competent to conceive and plan, organize and direct, must have creative ability and sound reasoning faculties. He must be acquainted with business methods, with human nature. Faraday said: "It requires twenty years to make a man in the physical sciences." The young engineer must have infinite optimism and hope. Yet the result more than repays this delay...