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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual spring clothing collection this year by the Social Service Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association has been the largest ever made. The clothing collected has been distributed as follows: two cases to Tuskegee Institute, one to the Seaman's Friend Society, one to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, one to the Cambridge Associated Charities, one to the Morgan Memorial, and one to the Salvation Army. Four cases of magazines will be given to the Salvation Army...
...McKay, Harvard University will in a few years begin to receive the income of several millions of dollars bequeathed in trust for the enlargement and improvement of the instruction in applied science now carried on by the University. It is the firm intention of the University to give the largest possible fulfillment to this great trust, in continuation of its already established policy whereby training for the industrial and engineering professions is recognized as a necessary and permanent function of the University. A person entering Harvard University as a student in applied science, shortly before the large benefits...
...point of aperture the new instrument is the largest telescope in the world. The present plan is to use it for measuring the relative intensity of the light of different stars. It will probably be ready for use early in the summer...
...sooner the method of collecting undergraduate subscriptions is done away with, the better. At present the Freshman class not only supports its class teams, but also gives the largest sums to the University teams. Several years ago it was hard to persuade a Junior or Senior to give to the University teams; consequently these teams were largely supported by subscriptions from the two lower classes. It would seem fairer to raise the cost of the H. A. A. and season tickets, and devise some way to make up any deficit, but the present method of collecting subscriptions seems unfair...
...collection of tourmalines, reported to be the largest collection in the world, including rough crystals and cut stones from San Diego county, California, is now on exhibition in the gallery of the Mineralogical Museum. In the same exhibit, which has been loaned to the Museum for an indefinite period by the Himalaya Mining Company, are some tourquoises from San Bernardino county and some chrysoprases from Julare county...