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Just a word to the Senior class in behalf of the committee that is collecting for the portrait of Professor Shaler, 1908 has voted to give the portrait to the Union as its graduating gift: a fitting remembrance from the last class that spent a year in Cambridge while Professor Shaler still lived. It is necessary to raise a large sum-much larger than was anticipated. And for this reason every Senior must subscribe more liberally toward a memorial worthy of a man renowned as the undergraduates' dearest friend...
Contributions should be given to collectors in the various dormitories or sent to C. V. Imlay, Treasurer, Box 82, Cambridge. SHALER PORTRAIT COMMITTEE...
...Burton, chairman of the committee to procure a portrait of the late Dean Shaler for the Union, then reported on the progress of that work. The portrait will cost between $1,000 and $1,500, and the committee is now selecting the artist. The committee is composed of; C. W. Burton, chairman, M. Allen, E. W. Fay, C. V. Imlay, and M. deS. Verdi...
Dean Sabine, who probably knew Dean Shaler better than anyone else, spoke of his sterling qualities and lovable disposition. He was the most striking and influential man of the Faculty, and was respected by the President and the Corporation because of his sound financial sense. Besides being very well known to the student body, he was intimate with the graduates through his extensive travels...
...closing, Dean Sabine said that as the Senior class was the last class which knew Dean Shaler intimately, it was most fitting that it should present the memorial, and emphasized the fact that the portrait should be placed in the Union where it could be seen by both the student body and the returning graduates...