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When the property holdings of the University at Mount Auburn and Holyoke Streets were consolidated by the acquisition of the land now occupied by the Spee Club expression was given to the hope that plans for a new plant for the medical service of the College were forthcoming. Rumors have been circulated to the effect that an anonymous individual had offered to contribute the necessary funds for the realization of such a project but no definite announcement of it has been made. Such a gift would be most heartily welcomed by the University and its students...
...completion of transactions whereby the University will receive the present Spee club house on 15 Holyoke Street, and will give the club a plot of ground with an 80-foot frontage on the west side of Holyoke Street at the corner of Mt. Auburn Street and a 90-foot frontage on the south side of Mt. Auburn Street at the corner of Holyoke Street, were made known yesterday. The terms of the exchange which is of significance in connection with the proposed new medical center, permit the members of the Spee Club to occupy their present house until...
...Spee Club traces its origin to the early part of the last century, when it was situated on Brattle Street near Harvard Square. In 1886 it purchased a house at 44 Church Street, remaining there until 1904, when the present building was ready for occupancy...
Governor of the idyllic Fiji Isles from 1912 until 1918 was Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott. "Toward the end of 1914," said he in England last fortnight, "I received a message that Von Spee's squadron was heading toward the Fijis and was only a day's voyage away...
...British bulldog was waiting for us 'round the corner. How kind of them to let us know of the trap in time and what a fool of a governor to give the show away! When Von Spee was informed he laughed heartily, and we steamed off full speed in the opposite direction...