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...University Catalogue for 1899-1900 is published and will probably be put on sale today. In subject matter, it is very similar to last year's catalogue, but it is much more inclusive and carefully arranged. It is 716 pages in length, an increase of 30 pages...
...names and addresses of the University's business officers; and, in the second division, is the first announcement "Instruction by Doctors of Philosophy" and an account and prospectus of the new Summer School of Theology. The departments of Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine are discussed at great length, owing to their combination and reorganization last spring...
...plans of the new launch to replace the "Frank Thompson" have finally been completed. It will be built by Lawley and Son of South Boston and, although resembling the old launch in general outline, it will have various improvements. The boat will be fifty-one feet in length, seven feet and ten inches in beam, and will draw thirty-six inches of water at low draft. The boiler and engine will be larger than in the "Frank Thompson," and a sustained speed of sixteen and one half miles an hour will thus be possible. The cost of building the boat...
...Peabody Museum has recently received a very valuable totem pole from Alaska, the gift of Mr. E. H. Harriman. The specimen is a Haida pole, 25 feet in length and is one of five carried away recently from Cape Fox Village by the Harriman Scientific Expedition. The pole was obtained for the Peabody Museum by Mr. Charles Palache. Cape Fox Village, which is on the mainland about 50 miles above the southern boundary of Alaska, was abandoned by the Indians twenty-five years...