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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...account of the recent financial troubles, the committee which has had charge of the fund for a new Dental School building, has not lately made any effort to complete the necessary sum. It will be remembered that this movement was started last January. A public meeting was held in Horticultural Hall, at which President Eliot, Dr. McKenzie, Governor Russell, and Phillips Brooks made addresses. It was proposed to raise $150,000 for the erection of a building on the lot adjoining that owned by the Boston Medical Library Association on St. Botolph street...
Only tally-ho coaches will be allowed inside the field this year, carriages being kept outside the fence. There will be several new gates, and the crowd will be handled much more quickly than in recent years...
...Further restriction is desirable. (a) Statistics show great increase in the least desirable classes of immigrants in recent years. N. Am. Rev. 152, pp. 28-32. (b) The effect prduced on U. S. by these undesirable classes is socially bad. (1) Their low standard of living makes it impossible for native workmen to compete without lowering their own standard. R. M. Smith, pp. 131-140. (2) They have introduced the pernicious sweating system. J. A. Rus, "How the Other Half Lives, " pp. 121-124. (3) An excessive proportion of our criminals and paupers is foreign born or of foreign parentage...
...call attention to the service at Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening. Dr. Momerie of London will preach. He is a distinguished preacher and scholer whose books on theological matters have had a great influence in recent years. Dr. Momerie has been a professor at Kinds College, and chaplain at the London Foundling Hospital. He comes to us directly from Cornell, where he has been speaking to the students. Here is an excellent opportunity to hear this distinguished English clergyman, and the chapel should be filled on the occasion of his visit...
...been very much enlarged. Professor Sargent has presented to it his library, containing about four thousand bound volumes and several thousand unbound pamphlets devoted to Botany, Dedrology, Forestry, Horticulture, Geography, and related subjects. In addition to this, Professor Sargent has received vouchers to the amount of $5453.17 for the recent purchases of books which have been made for the library. The Arboretum has also received from Mr. John L. Gardner for current expenses the sum of $2000, the second installment of his subscription...