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George Faulkner received instruction at the academies in Billerica and in Westford, and at the age of fifteen he entered a store in Boston. Becoming dissatisfied with trade, he abandoned this line after three years, and devoted himself to study. He spent a year and a quarter at the academy at Leicester, and one year at Phillips Exeter Academy, and entered Harvard with his class as a Freshman. During his College life he taught school each winter...
...thereby added directly to the taxable value of the land between the Riverbank and the Grand Junction Railroad, began to impress the intelligent business men of Cambridge. Nothing could be more desired than that the Cambridge side of the Back Bay Basin, on which millions of dollars have been spent, should be occupied by monumental buildings, worthy of the location and of the city. Here was the opportunity, when an institution of great reputation throughout the United States would erect such buildings, and thereby assure the future of that entire section; but the unfriendly clamor in previous years frightened that...
Friday morning and afternoon there will be business meetings, followed by an automobile trip in the late afternoon over Minneapolis and St. Paul, and in the evening by class dinners with a general smoker. Saturday will be spent in recreation, and in the evening the annual banquet will be held at the St. Paul Hotel. Among the speakers will be President Lowell, N. Clifford '90, Mayor of Portland, Me., G. von L. Meyer '79, Secretary of the Navy, and A. E. Willson '69, governor of Kentucky...
...first trip under this Research Fund was undertaken several years ago by Professor J. B. Woodworth. He spent some time in Brazil investigating supposed remains of glacial deposits...
...confidence in Coach Kennedy to get it into the best possible shape for the race with Harvard on June 30. All the men will be busy for the next two weeks with final examinations, which are being given at the training quarters, but much time will be spent on the river in various sorts of shells. For the first week or so the men will be sent out a great deal in pairs in order to develop their stroke in the new form which Coach Kennedy has worked out. This preparation will be necessary before the men can do much...