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...Chapel itself was built in 1742 and has had a varied history since then. At one time it served both as a chapel and a class room building for all the students in the college, despite the fact that it is now the smallest of the University buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCULPTORS BEGIN DECORATIVE WORK ON HOLDEN CHAPEL | 4/3/1926 | See Source »

...will accommodate a total of 303 men. Dormitory D, in the northwest corner of the quadrangle, will hold 152 men and is the largest of the buildings offered. The next in size is Dormitory F, which is situated parallel to the river and will afford rooms for 137. The smallest, the Instructor's Unit, facing on Boylston Street, will accommodate 14 men. There will be dining rooms in the dormitories where the men living there may have their meals, and although the board will be somewhat higher than in the Freshman Dormitories, it is expected that on the whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORES HAVE OPTION ON LIVING ACROSS CHARLES | 4/1/1926 | See Source »

Three states which showed decreases in population between 1910 and 1920 are estimated as having the same population in 1926 that they had six years ago: Mississippi 1,790,618; Vermont 352,428; Nevada 77,407. (Nevada has the smallest population of any state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Population | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Died. Che Mah, 88, self-styled "smallest man in the world; in Chicago. He was 28 inches in height with a queue 13 feet long. Imported from Choo Sang (island) by P. T. Barnum in 1881, he became wealthy from self-exhibition, retired in 1890, was twice married to U. S. women, by the first of whom he had a son of normal size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Other questions which have been ranked in the happily smallest percentage of the group, are such as "How many athletic H's did Theodore Roosevelt win while at Harvard?" "Is Yiddish a language or a dialect?" "Where is Walla Walla?" One of the most, unusual requests came as a the result of Professor De Wolfe's return to Belgium after completing his lecture course of the first half year. The person inquiring was under the impression that Professor De Wolfe had returned to see Cardinal Mercier before the death of the Belgian prelate and wished to know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Where Is Walla Walla?" Among Questions Addressed to New Information Desk-Decipher Letter to "Harvard Lore of You" | 2/5/1926 | See Source »

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