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This is the third year that the company has given a play in Boston for the benefit of the Museum. Last year Grill-parzer's "Medea" was very successfully presented. This year the company comes under a new director, Mr. Heinrich Conried having retired from the leadership during the past year...
...annual report of the Co-operative Society, presented to the stockholders yesterday, shows that the business of the Society has undergone an encouraging increase in volume during the past year. The total sales for the fiscal year ending July 31, 1907, amounted to $281,943.56, an increase of $32,692.12, or about twelve per cent., over the business of the preceding year. The increase in sales, destributed by departments, were as follows: 1905-06. 1906-07. Men's Furnishings, $54,911.96 $64,677.60 Books, 63,589.13 71,582.04 Stationery, 51,107.91 50,702.35 Tailoring, 38,596.17 43,554.72 Furniture...
...regular stands around the track will be erected this year for the Yale game, and low bleachers will be built behind each of the goals. The seats on top of the Stadium will not be as high as they have been in the past, in order to lessen the danger in their case also...
Since the Corporation puts its prohibition of high wooden seats at the Yale game on the ground of danger of accident, it is hard to criticize their action. In view of the fact that the seats in past years have been planned to hold several times the weight which is put on them and that the fire protection has been more than adequate, it seems rather an unnecessary limitation. If seats at previous Yale games had been open to public sale we should more readily concur with the action of the Corporation, but since over 3,000 graduate applications could...
...hope of the Harvard Political Club to continue its work this winter on a broarder scale than in past years. So far as possible meetings will be held every two or three weeks. At about half of these meetings men of a more or less national reputation will speak on some broad phase of political life. These lectures will be open to all members of the University, but the remainder of the meetings will be for members of the Political Club only. At these small meetings it is planned to have someone speak on practical local politics, the purpose being...