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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attitude of the students on the Memorial Hall question is not so easy to state as that of the Corporation, since the Corporation is a small and clearly united body, while the student body is large and of differing opinions. And yet we think that there are two beliefs which will be found at the base of nearly all student sentiment upon the question...
...members of the Corporation further state that the business already carried on by them is tremendous, and that to furnish board to students is a complicated matter under the most favorable circumstances. Since therefore it is not plain on what basis the new hall could be organized, and since the question seems in reality to be not of a second hall but of a number of halls limited only by the growth of the University, the Corporation is inclined to stop where it is and let the problem be solved by recourse to private enterprise...
...Arctic expedition under the supervision of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, has been postponed until June 30 at the request of students from Harvard and Yale who do not care to miss the 'varsity and freshman races at New London. A party from Harvard is now forming. I wish to state for the benefit of those who are laboring under the impression that the expedition will meet with intense cold, that the temperature in the regions aimed at, varies from 35 degrees to 50 degrees. It seldom goes below freezing point. I shall be glad to give further information...
...towards class organization in the school and is significant when taken in connection with the large increase in numbers over previous years. The class numbers 22, of whom thirteen are graduates of Harvard, while the others represent Oxford, and Durham, England; Heidelberg, Germany; the University of Montreal, Canada; the State Universities of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa, and several denominational schools...
President and Fellows of Harvard College. Adjourned Meeting at 50 State street, Boston...