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Last year the large nations of the world agreed to send a skip to the North Atlantic to patrol the region in which the "Titanic" sank, the district traversed by the chief steamship lines. It is the duty of this boat's crew to watch the icebergs and inform the steamships by wireless of the conditions of the route. England equipped and sent out a vessel last year. This year, the United States is sending the derelict destroyer "Seneca." Each year the other countries share the expenses of the expedition...
Thayer Common Room will be open today and Wednesday between 1 and 2 o'clock for the sale of transportation tickets to Princeton and the redemption of Pennsylvania railroad receipts. Men are reminded that the steamship company provides bunks without extra charge for those who are unable to obtain staterooms. The number of transportation tickets is unlimited, but there are no staterooms left in the hands of the committee, the only possible way of obtaining them being by personal application at the office of the Fall River line in Boston...
...sale of reduced rate tickets to Princeton will continue at Thayer Common Room today between 1 and 2 o'clock. The committee has secured a few more staterooms which will be positively the last the steamship company can furnish to the Harvard party. These rooms will be sold in order of application. Transportation tickets at the reduced rates are still on sale. The steamship company provides bunks without extra charge for men who are unable to obtain staterooms...
...JUNE, 1913, THIS CORNERSTONE OF THE HARRY ELKINS WIDENER MEMORIAL LIBRARY WAS LAID BY MRS. GEORGE DUNTON WIDENER WHO GIVES THE BUILDING AS A MEMORIAL TO HER SON HARRY ELKINS WIDENER BORN JANUARY 3, 1885 GRADUATED FROM HARVARD COLLEGE IN 1907 LOST IN THE WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP TITANIC...
...College that he developed a marked literary taste, and began the collection of the rare and beautiful books, which in his will he left to Harvard University. On April 15, 1912, together with his father, Mr. George D. Widener, he was lost at sea when the White Star steamship Titanic foundered...