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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...picnic is an unique affair, going down in class history with the Freshman dinner and the Junior Dance; and the necessity of absence should be forced on no man. Especially it should not be forced on the overworked young men of scholarly aspiration. Their opportunities for sport are rare enough, and treats such as gambolling in pink tights on the islands of Boston Harbor should not be denied them by their more jovial classmates. Now it matters little for the case in hand whether the date of distinction examinations or the date of the Senior Picnic be changed. As death...
...Fogg Art Museum a series of rubbings from English monumental brasses, presented by Mrs. George Fiske in memory of her husband, who was a member of the class of 1872. These make a fine and interesting display of handsome lines in black and white, and show the rare decorative ability of those Gothic workmen...
...administration has been the moving of some 500,000 volumes from Gore Hall into the Randall Dining Hall and nine other buildings. There has not been at any time, however, an interruption in the use of the books. All have continued to be accessible, except a few rare ones which have been sent to a safe deposit vault. Although the lecture rooms in Massachusetts Hall have been fitted up into satisfactory reading rooms, the students and the Library suffer from the inconvenience of having the main building and reading room a quarter of a mile apart. But both Randall...
...intended for those engaged in research work in meteorology, climatology, and aerodynamics, and contains 8,000 volumes and 5,000 pamphlets. These were gathered together by the late Abbott Lawrence Rotch, who for more than 30 years of his life gave special attention to the acquisition of standard treatises, rare issues, and volumes of exceptional merit and interest...
...first place Phi Beta Kappa should adopt an absolute basis of scholarship for election. Its elections at present are based, with rare exceptions when a man is known to have attained, his place dishonestly, upon marks. The leading eight men in a class compose the Junior eight; and the next twenty-two, the Senior twenty-two, actual college records determine chiefly the composition of the additional ten. The announcement of its basis, however, says that eight of the first twelve men in the class are elected in Junior year, and twenty-two of the next forty-four in Senior year...