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...will represent the American students' movement at that conference. To Northfield it is probable that there will be delegates from France and Germany and Sweden, and from seven of the universities of Great Britain. Harvard University raised through a committee of twenty about $600 to assist in defraying the cost of the entertainment of the foreign guests of the Northfield Conference. It is quite certain that Harvard will have a General Secretary next year, the needful sum having been raised. A strong attempt has been made to have an elective course in the English Bible offered next year. This...
...largest items of expense in the college course of a poor student at Harvard is the cost of furnishing his room when he first comes to Cambridge. A considerable outlay is necessary, and it must all be made in one year. This is probably one of the chief of those considerations which so often prevent poor men from trying to come to college. Both students and members of the faculty have appreciated this fact, and two years ago steps were first taken to obviate the difficulty. A considerable amount of second hand furniture was collected in one way and another...
...long been the desire of the authorities to open up the land deeded by Mr. Longfellow, but the cost of filling in the marshes as well as the prospect of unsatisfactory results in case a dike were built, has a ways deterred them. It has been estimated that to fill in the Longfellow land would cost at least four thousand dollars an acre. This new gift, however, is situated on high ground, four feet above the water level. It accordingly affords ample room for all present development and at the some time it will be easy gradually to extend quarters...
...cost of board at Memorial for the month of April was $4.04 per week...
...philosophy, history and criticism of art. In 1832 the Trumbull Gallery was built to contain the Trumbull collection, and was used till 1866, when Mr. A. R. Street, of the class of 1812 at Yale, gave the present building, and the School of Fine Arts was established. This building cost $220.000, and was designed by P. W. Wright, the architect of the National Academy of design in New York...