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...Advocate announces that its stort-story contest for a prize of $25, will close on March 15. The competition is open to all undergraduates excepting members of the Board. Stories, which should not exceed 4,000 words in length, must be typewritten and handed in at the Advocate House, 20 Holyoke street, not later than the date mentioned. The winning story, as well as others deserving honorable mention, will be published in the May Advocate...
...composition must be written in four voices, for chorus, with or without solo voices, and with organ or piano accompaniment; and the time required for its performance must not exceed six minutes. The words may be either English or Latin, religious or secular, original or selected. A prize will be awarded only in case a composition is submitted which fulfills the requirements of the Committee. It was Mr. Boott's desire that the type of music exemplified in Cherubini and Mozart should be followed...
...despatch announced, it has issued an order exempting from the provisions of the three per cent immigration law, students from foreign countries coming to the United States to study in American schools, colleges and universities. Under the present immigration law, the annual quota of each foreign country must not exceed 3 per cent of the total number of its nationals which the last census gives as residents of the United States. In the long run, the enforcement of this rule is bound to keep out of the United States some of the prospective students who, by all accounts, are coming...
Less than a generation ago Simon Newcomb, one of America's foremost mathematical astronomers, estimated the diameter of the Galactic System to be not less than 7000 light years and later ventured to state that as an outside limit it could not likely exceed 20,000 light years. Dr. Shapley's researches have developed newer methods of determining stellar distances which leads him to the conclusion that the real dimensions of the Milky Way must exceed Newcomb's earlier estimate nearly fifty fold. Recent investigations in physics will have a very important bearing on certain cosmic problems. These swiftly changing...
...privileges of the Union while in Cambridge, with the view of making the Union, as far as possible, the headquarters of graduates when in Cambridge. These graduates may apply at the Graduate Manager's office for a guest card; but in case their use of the clubhouse is to exceed three weeks, they must take out non-resident memberships...