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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard University Handbook was published, about 600 copies being sent to incoming Freshmen during August, and 2400 copies being distributed at the beginning of the college term through the various information bureaus. Through advertising the expense of printing and distribution of the 3,000 copies was met, with a small balance...
...feel that I can say something of attendance at Chapel in a general way. The average student attendance at Sunday Chapel a year was 247, which was a large increase over the report for pervious years. This year will probably not come up to that figures by a small margin; it certainly will not exceed it. This is easily explained when it is remembered that so far this year, there have been few preachers to attract unusually large audiences. As regards morning chapel, on the other hand, the outlook is distinctly encouraging. I think that the final figures...
More Freshman field-event men must report for regular practice if the team is to make any creditable showing this year. So far only an exceedingly small number of hurdlers, high-jumpers, and pole-vaulters have come out. No previous experience is necessary, and Freshmen who have never been out before should remember that now is the time to learn...
...been appointed by the Corporation overseer of the trees and shrubs in the college grounds. Professor Fisher's connection with this sort of work began immediately upon his graduation in 1898 when he was appointed collector from the United States Biological Survey at Washington and assigned to a small expedition to the Shasta region of California. After other positions in the West and under the government he returned to Harvard as instructor in forestry...
...Harvard Astronomical Observatory has received two cablegrams from Kiel, Germany, one stating that a comet, visible through a small telescope, has been discovered on March 29 by Dr. Kritzinger of Bothcamp, Germany, and the other that the comet was fast becoming invisible and could only be seen by a large telescope. These reports are part of the general plan whereby the Observatory is the distributing centre of astronomical news for the United States...