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...amount available for undergraduates from scholarships, the Price Greenleaf Fund and the Beneficiary Fund, will amount to about forty thousand dollars for the coming year. The annual value of the scholarships varies from forty-five to four hundred and fifty dollars. In making an assignment under the present system the facts considered are the needs of the student, and his promise of intellectual ability as indicated by his work in college. Scholarships are ordinarily assigned on the basis of a previous year of work in college. Students who have incurred a serious college censure in the course of the year...
...annual exhibit of the Camera Club closed last night. It was in every way a great success. During the four days that the pictures were open to the public, over three thousand persons went to see them...
...bequest to Radcliffe College by the late Miss Ellen M. Barr of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, was inaccurately stated in yesterday's papers. By Miss Barr's will, the "Harvard Annex," now Radcliffe College, receives a residuary bequest amounting to between forty and forty-five thousand dollars, to "be applied in the form of annual scholarships of not less than $250 and not more than $300, for the benefit of students in the said 'Annex' who, in point of character, ability and physical constitution, give promise of future usefulness and who stand in need of pecuniary assistance...
...seats in the pit of the theatre will be removed and the stage extended. This will leave about one thousand seats which will probably be put on sale the end of this week. Arrangements will be made so that members of the University will have the first opportunity of obtaining seats. The remaining seats, if any, will be sold at public sale...
...ancient Stadium at Athens is to be put in order, its high embanked sides covered with rows of seats and the level part provided with a running track, so that the field sports and general athletic contests will be held in a superb place, capable of seating twenty thousand spectators. The aquatic sports will be held in the roadstead of Phaleron or in the straits of Salamis, while the yacht regatta, which promises to be unusually brilliant, will take place in the Saronic Gulf. The provisional programme comprises: Foot races of various lengths, including a long distance run from Marathon...