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...recommendation of the House Committee on Rules, the lower house of the Massachusetts Legislature voted on Friday to suspend the rules and to admit the petition of Major H. L. Higginson '55, and others, regarding the construction of the proposed Charles River Dam. Definite action on the bill will be taken by the House probably today. It will then be referred to the Committee on Rules of the Senate, and if the committee reports favorably, will be brought before that body for final action...
...committee, composed chiefly of Harvard graduates, has been organized to favor the construction of a dam in the Charles River, at or near the present Craigie bridge. The committee is made up as follows: Major H. L. Higginson '55, Dr. Augustus Hemenway '75, J. J. Storrow '85, G. W. Weld '60 and N. Matthews, Jr. An attempt will be made to have the cost of construction born jointly by the State of Massachusetts and the cities of Cambridge and Boston...
...Union is well under way. Some weeks ago, when the plan of collecting the sum of $6,000 was first made public, the committee, in its notice in the CRIMSON, refrained from stating the primary purpose of the collection: This was to have a portrait of Major Higginson painted by Sargent to be hung in the Union if the necessary amount could be raised. At that time Major Higginson had not been approached, on the subject. Recently, however, he has been notified of the intention of the students and has promised to sit for the portrait. Mr. Sargent...
...research), 250.00 J. J. Storrow and F. P. Fish (to purchase boiler and engine for steam launch for the benefit of the Department of Engineering), 550.00 J. H. Gardiner (to be added to Francis James Child Memorial Fund),60.00 E. J. Wendell (toward furnishing Brooks House), 50.00 Henry L. Higginson (deficit of Chamber Concerts), 552.90 James A. Lowell, Edward W. Grew, Julian L. Coolidge, Randolph C. Grew (South End Fellowship), 400.00 George P. Gardner, 250.00 Charles Fairchild (new lantern for Geological Department), 250.00 A. C. Coolidge (credited to Library income), 41.00 Members of Government 6 (for purchase of books...
...hagiography), 800.00Alexander Agassiz (for changes and improvements at the new boat house), 6,145.00J. K. Paine (for purchase of books and expenses of chamber Concerts), 17.97Theobald Smith. (for research in Laboratory of Comparative Pathology), 25.00Mr. Alexander Agassiz, Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Adams, Mrs. Henry L. Higginson (for completion of University Museum), 100,000.00Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw (for instruction in Sloyd for the Cuban teachers). 400.00Total...