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...York, to be used next summer in connection with the surveying camp at Squam Lake, New Hampshire. The boat will be forty feet long with a beam of eight feet and a draught of twenty inches. It will have a speed of nine miles an hour. During the past winter, a new ice-house and a cold storage plant have been built near the lake, and a stone pier extending from the camp to the lake. With these improvements, the camp will be better able to carry on its surveying work during the coming summer...
...Hall won the freshman prize debate, the freshman declamation contest and also received second prize in the sophomore-freshman extemporaneous speaking contest. He was the successful speaker in the interclass oratorical contest in his sophomore year and this year was alternate on the team which defeated Yale. During the past year he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian...
...given between September and April, while he is absent from the University on sabbatical leave. There will be in all twelve lectures, on some stated period of English literature. This is the first time that an American has been invited to deliver these lectures, which have been given during past years by the greatest scholars of England...
During the past week contributions amounting to $202.50 have been received by the Boer relief committee of the University...
...extension to the building in which the 115,000 valuable photographic negatives belonging to the Observatory are kept. The present building's accommodations have for a long time been insufficient for the housing of this collection of negatives which furnish a history of the entire stellar universe for the past twelve years and which is not duplicated anywhere in the world...