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...Library has recently received through Mr. L. Wiener the second largest collection of books in the Slovak language in the world. Slovak is a dialect of Bohemian spoken by nearly two million and a half of the inhabitants of Northern Hungary. During the nineteenth century it has developed a literature of its own. Mr. Wiener spent the summer in the Slovak country, and then succeeded in buying all the books of value in that literature...
...model, a solid piece of plaster thirty feet in circumference, is the largest of the kind yet produced in this country and by far the most accurate. The area represented is nearly five hundred square miles, embracing the territory within a radius of twelve miles from Boston...
...them before coming to Harvard. These 212 different schools and colleges have conferred degrees on 754 of the men now in the University. Graduates of Harvard College in the Graduate and professional schools of the University are not included in these figures. Yale University is represented by the largest number of graduates -- 94 in all. Brown is second with 60, and Dartmouth is third with 47. Bowdoin and Amherst have 35 each; Williams 20; Tufts 18. From the University of Pennsylvania there are only 6. The English University of Oxford is not represented, but there are graduates from Cambridge University...
...officers in charge of the polls shall be appointed by the President of the Union. There shall be no voting by proxy. The person receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared elected. In case of a tie, another election for that office shall be held within five days...
...indoor meet under the auspices of the Boston Athletic Association will be held on the afternoon of March 16 in Mechanics Building, Boston. There will be nine regular scratch events, and several team races, one of which has been arranged between Worcester High and Hopkinson. The school winning the largest number of points will be given a silver cup, which has been offered this year for the first time by the B. A. A. Each school may enter three men in all the events, except the mile run and the 100 yard dash, in which only one man may start...