Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...immediate answer, to this appeal will be the most effective protest on the part of the American people against this most cruel wrong. At this season of the year, with Thanksgiving just behind us and Christmas fast approaching, what more appropriate gift can be made...
...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...
...University Museum of Comparative Zoology is to receive a gift of the collection of birds which has been made during a scientific cruise along the North African coast, in charge of Henry Russell Amory '14. The scientific work of the expedition started at Teneriffe, and through the documents issued by the State Department the efforts of the scientists were greatly facilitated. On the island of Lazeroti numerous birds were taken. Here the craft was caught in a gale which sent her into Agadir, Morocco, where the captain of a French battleship, the Du Chayla, had a revenue cutter...
...library has received from Rio de Janiero six hundred volumes of Brazilian history and literature. These books were selected by Dr. Julius Klein, Ph.D. '13, Instructor in History, who is traveling in South America, and are a gift to the library from the Hon. Edwin Vernon Morgan '90, American Ambassador to Brazil. It was Mr. Morgan's object in making this gift to encourage the study of South American affairs at Harvard, and in particular to commemorate the courses in these subjects which are given this year by his friend, Dr. Oliveira Lima...
...Another gift reported was the Alexander Kohut memorial collection of 10,000 volumes in the general field of Semetics...