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Professor George F. Swain of the Engineering Department was elected president of the American Society of Civil Engineers at its annual meeting held in New York yesterday. Professor Swain is the 43rd president of the organization, which is one of the oldest in the country, and which has a membership of about...
...Boston Dispensary has been taken over by the Harvard Medical School. This institution, located on the corner of Ash and Bennet streets, is the third oldest in the country. For the coming year, Dr. W. P. Lucas of the University Medical Faculty will be at its head. With the completion of the new Peter Bent Brigham Hospital of fifteen buildings, which is being constructed on Longwood avenue near the Medical School, and which will be under the exclusive control of the University, Harvard's facilities for giving its students practical clinical instruction will be almost unlimited. Except for the Grace...
...Beta Kappa Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776 and is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America. It aims to gather together those men whose first interest is in scholarship and intellectual pursuits. The Harvard chapter, established in 1779, comprises among its undergraduate presidents such men as John Quincy Adams 1787, James Russell Lowell '38, Edward Everett Hale '39, Oliver Wendell Holmes '29, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41; and among its orators and poets Charles Sumner '30, Wendell Phillips '31, William Cullen Bryant, Henry W. Long fellow h.'59, Henry Ward Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...purpose of this foundation is to establish, at the oldest University of America, a monument to the West and to its importance both past, present and future in shaping the character and the destinies of this country. If the Foundation fulfils the conception of the founder and of the Commission, it will aid in collecting material which will in the future make possible adequate study of the fulfilment of the great faith of the East in the West from the early decades of the nineteenth century on; and it will be a place where all students of American History will...
...Business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Harvard Hall, followed by a parade to Sanders Theatre. The parade will be formed by classes, the oldest classes leading...