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...large bequests, the Lord Strathcona Fund and the John W. Sterling Fund, have recently been received by Yale University. The disposition of the latter has not yet been decided, but a recent announcement concerning the Strathcona bequest states that it will be devoted to the following purposes: the creation of two endowment funds of $140,000 each for the maintenance of two professorships in the graduate school, of a fund of $30,000 for Strathcona memorial scholarships; the setting aside of $250,000 for the erection of a Strathcona Memorial Building and $50,000 for the maintenance of the structure...
President Lowell sounded the keynote of the campaign in a recent open letter to all Harvard men, which reads...
...Mister in "The Nude Romance" makes an amusing attempt at parody some of the material which has appeared in recent numbers of the Harvard Magazine. That sort of thing calls for a facile pen and wit of a high order. Mr. Mister gives promise of cultivating or acquiring these by dint of much practice. Although he is far from expert now, his work shows much promise, and even a poor attempt is better than none. Such parodies do much toward stimulating a healthy rivalry, in the same way that Zeppelin raids during the war were almost invariably followed...
...which has surrounded the University's coming football season has been largely dispelled by the Athletic Committee's selection of the new coach. Robert Fisher has been spoken of as an available candidate ever since it was definitely known that Major Haughton could not return. His experience under that recent coach, not only as an assistant but as a player makes him particularly valuable...
...considered that the last formal games were played, and the last letters awarded, two seasons ago. Besides this, the spring practice of two months ago brought out the welcome fact that at least as large a supply of first-rate new material is available, as in any one recent year. Of course there will be difficulties, for as in other sports the continuity has been broken, and it will take time and infinite practice to reform old habits, and to lick musty material into shape. Former Coach Haughton, however, has expressed every confidence in Mr. Fisher's abilities as next...