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...suggest that the graduates and undergraduates of Harvard unite in raising a fund to erect a tablet to his memory, and no more fitting spot to place it could be found than Soldiers Field, because I am sure the donor of the field would feel that it was a fitting place for a memorial to a man who was worthy to rank with his own friends of the Civil...
...plan to erect a building for the School was proposed. Pasture land in the rear of the professors' houses, the present site, was chosen. After a committee had determined that the site would be healthy, despite its perpetual dampness, building operations were begun. In conclusion the speaker paid tribute to President Eliot in view of all that he had done in bringing about the union of the Theological School with the University...
Columbia's plans for a national industrial engineering research centre are fast taking shape. Two sites have already been offered for the proposed laboratories. It is proposed to erect immediately research laboratories to cost $350,000, with equipment to cost $150,000. The entire project calls for an ultimate endowment of from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. In speaking of the plans, Dean Goetze said, "If this country would start at once building up its industries as Germany has done, it would be true preparedness. To aid this work on a national scale, Columbia has planned these research...
...Yale crew committee has announced that Yale crews will have their spring practice on the Housatonic River, below Derby, on a four-mile course which the committee has recommended. Temporary quarters will be erected for housing the shells and for crew dressing-rooms. The crews will abandon the harbor entirely. Should the Housatonic prove to be an ideal course, arrangements will be made to transfer by barges the George Adee boathouse, which cost $100,000 to erect. The need of funds to move the boathouse seems to be the only drawback to the proposition...
...Yale Athletic Association has announced that the gift of F. P. Garvan, a former "Y" track man, has enabled the track association to erect a building solely for indoor track practice. The building, which is now under construction will be 195 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 20 feet high, with a clay floor and plenty of window and skylight space. In addition to the spacious skylights there will be adequate electric illumination for dull days and for work at night. A special mixture of clay and cinders has been found to be the most satisfactory indoor flooring for athletic...