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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...furniture for the new Law School has been obtained, and the work on the inside fittings is now being pushed ahead rapidly. It is expected, that the building will be ready for use by November 1. The grading around the building is near completion, and a macadamized road has been built along the front. All the walks from the near-by buildings have been completed...
...annual Harvard-Yale rowing regatta will be held on the Thames, near New London, Conn., on Thursday, June 27. The Freshman eights will start under the New London railroad bridge at 10 o'clock in the morning and will row upstream for two miles, finishing at the Navy Yard. Directly after the finish of the Freshman race, the University four-oared crews will start at the Navy Yard to race upstream. They will finish near the west shore of the Thames, opposite "Red Top." The race between the university eights is scheduled to start in the afternoon...
...June 14, 1907.--The University crew had its first time trial over the four-mile course late this afternoon, covering the distance in 22 minutes and 46 seconds. There was a slightly favoring tide; but Blagden steered a poor course, losing the force of the tide by not staying near enough to the channel. At about 7.15 o'clock the men went in the launch downstream as far as the New London railroad bridge. The crew got away with a good start and rowed about 32 strokes per minute for the first half-mile, which was covered in good time...
Professor Clemen was born in 1866 at Sommerfeld, near Leipzig. He attended the Fuerstenschule in Grimma, and later studied at the Universities of Leipzig, Bonn and Strassburg. In 1893 he was made Provincial Conservator of the Rhine Province, and in 1898 became Professor Extraordinarius of the History of Art at Bonn. He was called to the Art Academy at Dusseldorf as Professor of the History of Art and of Literature in 1899, but in 1902 was recalled to Bonn...
...very few books were received in the clothing collection recently held, there will be a special book collection near the end of the period of the final examinations. In the collection at this time last spring about five hundred books were secured. One hundred and twenty-five more were added in the collection last autumn. More than one hundred and fifty of these have been loaned throughout the year...