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...Prior to this addition, the Library's Pan-American collection, including books of history, geography and literature of all countries south of the United States, numbered only 7,000 volumes, which number was surpassed by both the Library at Washington, D. C., and the one at Yale. The collection has had a slow but steady growth, the first real accession coming in 1909 when Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 and Mrs. C. L. Hay bought and presented the library of the late Luis Montt of Santiago de Chile. This 1909 addition made the Library unusually strong in Chilean Literature...
...School Library as well as the College Library also benefitted by Dr. Lichtenstein's trip. Several attempts, prior to this recent trip, were made in order to secure for the Law School a collection of the laws, decisions and doctrinal legal writings of the Southern republics but the results were, for the most part, fragmentary. Through the efforts of Dr. Lichtenstein, however, a very complete collection of material from these countries has been obtained and at the present time the Law Library is probably as fully equipped in South American legal writings as any law library in the United States...
...single sculling race against Yale the University will be represented by two men. The race will be one mile in length and will take place prior to the class crew race against Yale in the Charles River Basin on May 15. Candidates for single sculling should report at Weld boathouse to Dr. Paul Withington, Wednesday at 4.30 o'clock. Members of the University and class crews will not at present be allowed to compete for this event
...Schumann-Heink, whose health has been sufficiently restored at her farm in California, where she is now staying, to take part in the performance, will be the Erda. Her only appearance this season in Boston will be in "Siegfried," her only other engagement in this country prior to June fourth will be at the Saenger-fest in Brooklyn, N. Y. Mme. Gadski, the Brunnhilde, has never sung so well as she is singing this year at the Metropolitan. Mme. Alma Gluck is engaged to sing the music of the bird who speaks to Siegfried, because the fresh quality...
These requirements must be satisfied in full before matriculation. Partial deficiencies in single subjects may be made up prior to admission by courses in the Harvard Summer School. Students are requested to apply for admission before July 1 on registration blanks to be furnished by the secretary. The Administrative Board reserves the right to refuse applicants if the number admitted is as large as can be effectively taught...