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...class of '91 has offered to present to the Union a drinking fountain to be placed somewhere in the corridors of the ground floor. The offer is now being considered by the trustees, but through some delay no definite action has as yet been taken. When the offer was first made, the Trustees wished to have the fountain erected in the corridor leading to the dining room, where water pipes are already in place; but the donors and architect were not willing to place it in such a disadvantageous position and agreed to put in the pipes necessary to placing...
...Francke, Curator of the Museum, has recently been notified of two valuable additions to the present collection which are now on their way to Cambridge. The first of these, from the Swiss National Museum at Zurich, is the figure of a Swiss Warrior of the sixteenth century from a fountain at Schaffhausen, and is the first installment of the gift of the Swiss government; the second is a plaster cast of the Tomb of Henry the Lion and his wife at Braunschweig, probably the finest sepulchral monument of the twelfth century, and is the gift of Mr. Arthur P. Schmidt...
...bronze statue of Charles Sumner '30 has been anonymously given to the city of Cambridge and is being placed on the small delta, bounded by Cambridge and Kirkland streets and Massachusetts avenue. The statue is the work of Miss Anne Whitney of Boston who designed the Lief Ericson fountain on Commonwealth avenue...
...gives many interesting facts about its organization and government Harvard is really ruled by a parliament of three estates, not unlike the king, lords and commons. The "Corporation has some of the prerogatives of sovereignty; it possesses the power of the purse and is the fountain of all university honors. The Board of Overseers, with the power of reviewing, investigating and suggesting, but not of initiation, is the House of Lords, while the faculties correspond roughly to the Commons. "Harvard," says Professor Hart, "is now the richest university in America, but it is also the poorest university in the sense...
...Accepted Story," by R. A. Wood '03, deal with somewhat similar subjects in very much the same way. Both of them are rather interesting and show spirit, but at times, there is almost too strong a suggestion of the proverbial reckless undergraduate in them. Of the other stories, "The Fountain of Pirene," by A. D. Ficke '04, is the most original, and of the greatest merit. It is simply told and the descriptive words running through it are natural and effective...