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During the summer the Peabody Museum has received several very impor tant additions to its collections, especially to the collections of pottery. One of the largest of these groups is the Gordon collection of pottery from the banks of the Ulua River in Honduras. This comprises broken bits of colored pottery, stone idols and terra cotta whistles in the shape of animals, all of which were found in the banks of the Ulua River at a depth varying from four to forty feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Peabody Museum. | 10/9/1897 | See Source »

...appearance of the football notice to the Freshman class, which we publish in another column, is an unfortunate beginning for 1901's athletic record. Out of the largest class which has yet entered the University, only some fifty men-or little more than half of last year's number-have come out to play football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/6/1897 | See Source »

Most of the recent bequests to the University have been for specified purposes of some kind, with the result that the Corporation has felt seriously the need of ready funds for making improvements along the most needed lines. Now, however, that one of the largest gifts of recent years has come to the Corporation, this last summer, with no conditions imposed as to its use, we may look for several improvements which have long been desirable but which it has thus far been impossible to make. One addition, in particular, to the University, which has become almost a necessity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/29/1897 | See Source »

...attendance at the Summer School this year was the largest ever recorded. Besides those attending the courses in Medicine and Dentistry in Boston, the Cambridge department had 647 regular students as compared to 528 enrolled in 1896. This large increase was chiefly in the courses in English and Physical Geography...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Summer School. | 9/29/1897 | See Source »

This table gives the number of slight illnesses, mostly remedial by rest, an even temperature, a regulated diet and good nursing, as over 1100; injuries requiring surgical treatment, 78, and miscellaneous-non-contagious diseases-535. November, January, February and March were the months showing the largest sick lists, and the average number of students in these months was respectively 45.7, 51.3, 46.5, 80.8. Of contagious cases there were during the year 108 only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/22/1897 | See Source »

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