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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editor of the present volume, which is the fourteenth, is Professor F. W. Taussig, chairman of the department of Economics...
...Freshman Debating Club for the Worcester debate was held last night and resulted in the choice of the following team: C. H. Scovell, A. Black, H. P. Williams, and L.B. Hill, alternate. The contestants each spoke ten minutes on the subject, "Resolved, That the English claims in the present controversy with the South African Republic are justifiable." The judges were W. M. Chadbourne '00, E. Mayer '00 and S. B. Southworth...
...dormitories are an extension of the present dormitory system, and will complete the enclosed "Triangle" of which the existing buildings forms two sides. They are to be in continuous, but non-connecting cottages, after the plan of Walter Hastings Hall, and will provide 175 additional rooms for students. They are to be ready for occupancy in September, 1900. The main entrance to the dormitory Triangle will be formed by the War Memorial Tower, to be erected in memory of students and alumni of the university who fell in the war with Spain...
...registration in the university for the present academic year is about the same as last year. Considerable interest has been felt in the new courses of study opened this year in banking, commerce and diplomacy. Other new courses are offered in debating, one being very similar to what was so long known at Harvard as "English 6." These courses are under the direction of Dr. Alden of the English department, who was for a time connected with the English department at Harvard...
...account; and the Faculty Club has just moved into a new building directly opposite the campus, where lunch rooms and other conveniences give hope that they may some time have as comfortable club rooms as the undergraduates. Two German plays are to be given in the city during the present academic year, under the auspices and for the benefit of the German department. They are given through the courtesy of Mr. Conried of the German theatre in New York, and are attracting no little attention. The first play to be presented is Minna von Barnhelm; the second will be from...