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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every student in Harvard College and the Lawrence Scientific School who fails to register at the time set for that purpose, may be required to pay to the Bursar a fee of $5 before being permitted to register. Payment of this fee does not preclude action by either of the Administrative Boards...
...annual concert of this season the Pierian Sodality Orchestra has set a new standard of attainment, for in the essentials of technique and artistic proficiency,--precision of attack, regard for shading, and euphony between the sections of the orchestra, the performance was the best the writer has ever heard from a college organization. In the Unfinished Symphony, notwithstanding a few slight blemishes, which may readily be condoned when we remember that a flawless rendering of this delicately scored work is expected only from a few orchestras in the world, the conception of the conductor was one of thorough insight...
That same afternoon Shackleton accompanied by three men from the "Nimrod" set out to return for Marshall, and the night passed on the journey was the first in which he had slept since he had begun the forced march. Early the next morning they set out again and on the following night were back at the coast with Marshall and his companion. During the last afternoon a blizzard had been raging and the "Nimrod" had moved to shelter when they arrived. However, they managed by means of calcium torches to attract her attention and at 10 o'clock...
...most remarkable feats in polar exploration ever accomplished. The earliest report of his achievement reached England on March 23, 1909, where it produced great excitement. He had been a member of an earlier Antarctic expedition under Scott in 1902-03; but it was not until 1907 that he set out in command of his own. He succeeded in reaching a point 111 miles from the pole, on January 9, 1909, and undoubtedly would have reached the pole itself if his provisions had not become exhausted...
...inadequate of all are the toilet facilities in Holworthy and Thayer. In the basement of the former is one toilet room for the whole building. More need not be said. In Thayer there is one toilet in the basement of each entry. "They are all underground, gloomed by high-set, unclean windows, which preclude good ventilation, and lighted by one or two dim-flickering gas jets. The rough brick walls are often dirty and the wood work is worse. Compared to any respectable house or hotel they are Mr. Viles." This description is not overdrawn...