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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Aeronautical Society, which was founded in 1908, is one of the oldest aviation organizations of its kind in the country. From experimenting with the old type of glider, the society has done much interesting work with motor planes, which has culminated in the recent purchase of a seaplane and in plans to train pilots for service at Framingham...
...presented to the University the hall which bears the State's name. They have been years of service; generations of students have roomed there, soldiers have gone thence to battle for their country, fires have scorched its walls, but still it stands, now no longer the newest, but the oldest college building. It is but right and fitting that on this day the University should pause in its course a few moments to do honor to the hall which is both a monument and a record of Harvard's enduring traditions and glories...
...large number of present and former members of the Memorial Society, graduates of the University, and distinguished guests, will gather in Massachusetts Hall at 7 o'clock this evening for the dinner held to celebrate the bi-centennial of this second oldest college building in the United States. Vice-President-elect Coolidge, President Lowell and Professor Edward Channing '78 of the History Department will be among the speakers, the Honorable William C. Loring '72 will act as toastmaster, and Judge Robert Grant '73 will read a poem composed especially for the occasion...
Massachusetts Hall, the second oldest college building in the country, is two hundred years old this month, and on Friday, December 10th., its second centennial will be celebrated at a dinner to be held in the building itself under the auspices of the Harvard Memorial Society...
...Boylston Hall is probably the oldest large chemical laboratory in the world today. It was built in 1857 and at that time only a small part of it was intended for chemistry. Through the ingenuity of the Directors, Professors, Cook, Hill, Sanger and Lamb, it has been patched, enlarged and metamorphosed so that chemical work is possible for many students in it. The ventilation anl lighting are very poor, however, and the space is too cramped for the number of men who use the building. Moreover, courses in many branches of chemistry, particularly industrial chemistry, cannot be provided...