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After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 many of them went to Turkey, where they retained the Spanish language through writing it in Hebrew characters. From the descendants of these Jews it is possible to gain a far more accurate knowledge of fifteenth century Spanish than can be obtained in Spain. Professor Wiener spent the summer of 1898 in Turkey, investigating this old Spanish, and collected a number of songs which he will read and discuss tonight...
...monopolizing the weights and endeavoring to turn the sharp corners of the indoor track, with a basketball team that requires the entire floor space for practice, with a gymnastic team and many other groups of men seeking exercise at the same time and in the same place, one may gain an idea of what it means at Harvard for many students at one time to undertake systematic exercise...
...statement gives four and sixty-eight one-hundredths per cent as the rate of income on the general investments,--a decrease of twelve one-hundredths from the rate of the preceding year. The investments of the University amounted on July 31, 1903, to $15,863,521.70, showing a gain of $1,748,979.85 over the preceding year. Of gifts the total amount received during the year, not counting announcements of future gifts and testamentary benefactions not actually paid in, was $1,756,418.40, of which $1,340,876.28 was for capital account and $415,542.12 for immediate...
...statement is the deficit of $40,403.07, appearing in the account known as "University, College, and Library." The Corporation had increased the salaries in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences by $43,784.99 in the year under review and this increase was more than met by the remarkable gain of $48,926.47 in receipts from students; but the assignment to restricted uses of funds, the income of which was available in the preceding year, contributed to a loss of income amounting to $18,242.99. Furthermore, the cost of maintaining the New Lecture Hall, the Germanic Museum, the Semitic Museum...
...should hold the balance of power and compel the political parties to compete for their support. This independent vote, however, is not often large enough to carry an election, and is almost never able to carry two in succession. Even rarer is the chance of an independent candidate to gain an election independent of all party, for non-partisan government does not work in this country, it being one of the prices of government under our constitution that political parties must do the work of government. An exception to this rule, however, is the case of municipal politics, which should...