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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yesterday by Eliot Wadsworth '98, executive chairman of the University Endowment Fund, the specific needs of the various departments in regard to increased salaries and other expenses are described. The reasons for the raising of the goal from $10,000,000 to $15,250,000 are set forth in Mr. Wadsworth's announcement. Not only a 50 per cent. increase of salary of the reglar teaching staff will be necessary, but funds for physical education, the dental school, chemical development and other numerous purposes...
...original mark which we set," said Mr. Wadsworth, "was $10,000,000; this amount was the estimate of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee which was appointed in 1916. This seemed large at the time and was based upon the needs of the institution at the time for increased equipment and higher remuneration for the teaching staff. America entered the war, however, within a short time and the plans were dropped until last spring. When the Committee began work again, the first step was a full study of the University. This investigation was made by members of the Committee and graduates...
...outside, at each end of the structure, will be built an outdoor and ball court with concrete floor. These courts will be used in preference to the indoor courts except in inclement weather. Mr. William H. Geer, Director of the Department of Physical Training, announced that the new building will be ready for occupancy about the middle of November and that it will cost approximately...
...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2,000 a month, and it is expected that in spite of the most painstaking work more than three thousand addresses will be out of date when the directory is issued.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...
...work of the office, which formerly was confined solely to the printing of the directory has now increased so much that the directory has become of 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...