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...trust fund created by the will of the late P. P. F. Degrand is about $170,000, from the income of which annuities amounting to about $3,000 a year are now payable. After the death of all annuitants, Harvard is to receive for a tund for French books one-fourth of the principal of the trust fund and nine other corporations are each to receive one twelfth. Our share will be about $43,000, or $2,500 yearly for French books...
...last eight years was given. For churches the average is two a week. A diagram of a combustible hotel was next shown, warranted, as the lecturer remarked, "to burn in half an hour." Hotels are built with such an utter disregard of fire, that an average of one and one-fourth a day are destroyed...
...Columbia attendance on chapel exercises at 9.30 A. M. is compulsory for all students residing on Manhattan Island. Students living in the country and those having recitations at 9 A. M. are excused from attendance. Students are allowed "cuts" to the number of one-fourth of the total number of exercises. If this limit is exceeded, the student, ipso facto, ceases to be a candidate for a degree, and can only be excused from this penalty by vote of the faculty, and this not unless every absence is satisfactorily accounted for. The exercises consist of a portion of the Episcopal...
...Paul's school at Concord, N. H., opened this year with about 270 boys, nearly one-fourth of whom are there for the first time...
...GUERNDALE: AN OLD STORY. By J. S. of Dale. C. Scribner's Sons, New York." "Guerndale" is not a book we would advise callow freshmen to send home to their loving "mamas" that they may get an idea of what we do at Harvard. About one-fourth of the book is a sketch of life at Harvard, and as the work of a Harvard man the entire book may be taken to represent in a certain sense the spirit of Harvard. However it only represents a certain "set" at Harvard. This is a fault common to most college books...