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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...list of furnished rooms for rent in Cambridge homes has been printed and may be obtained at the Information Bureau at Phillips Brooks House. All the rooms are in the vicinity of Harvard Square or the Law School. For married graduate students, special suites with house-keeping facilities are provided. As all the rooms in the college dormitories rented by the Bursar have been taken, these private suites will provide a substitute this year for regular college rooms...
Frederick S. Mead '87, who is in charge of the University directory office and the University war records office has announced that the new directory will not include the geographical list as did the earlier editions. As the office receives in normal times more than 1,000 changes in its records in a single month, it is imperative that as little time as possible should elapse while the directory is on the press. The addition of the geographical list of University men would add to the time necessary for the preparation of the volume more than two months...
...perfection of the indexing system now in use at the directory office, Mr. Mead hopes to have the list more than 90 per cent. correct when it is issued. During the three months intervening between sending out the proof sheets and going to press changes took place at the rate of more than 2,000 a month, and it is expected that in spite of the most painstaking work more than three thousand addresses will be out of date when the directory is issued. The difficulty is increased by the fact that 1,551 men are now carried...
...almost secondary importance. By the aid of class and alumni association secretaries, and the various Harvard clubs throughout the world Mr. Mead has assembled a card catalogue which is at the disposal of the University office and the various alumni activities, and furnishes a much more convenient and ready list of addresses than was obtainable by the older methods. The most signal use of the catalogue at the present time is in forwarding the work of the Endowment Fund Committee, making it possible for the managers of the $11,000,000 campaign to get in personal touch with every living...
...service in Washington; secretary, Professor William Guild Howard '91, of the German Department; treasurer, Richard Henry Dana '74, prominent laywer. A vote was passed by the meeting to invite the united chapters of Phi Beta Kappa to hold their next triennial meeting here in Cambridge. The following list of honorary members was also approved by the society...