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Harvard Clubs in 1904 erected a monument to the University's founder in the shape of the Chapel of St. John--commonly known as Harvard Chapel. The foundations of the chapel were laid nearly a thousand years ago. The building, however, was allowed to lapse into decay until restored in medieval style by interested Alumni...
...also explained that it was the Travel Department of the N. S. A. which incurred a deficit of several thousand dollars last year, not the whole organization. The principle cause of the deficit, Houghteling said, was the miscarriage of some of the travel plans, but poor work of the Department's bookkeeper was also to blame...
...Ninety Thousand Plus. In the short space of two weeks, the Chinese suffered a double beating-first while attacking, then while retreating. Army Chief of Staff Collins estimated the Chinese casualties for six days of their offensive at 90,000, and last week they were losing more thousands every day. This week their resistance had stiffened noticeably, and the "rout phase" of their retreat seemed to have ended. But Van Fleet still had about 90 more miles (roughly to latitude 39° 30') in which to grind them down before a rapidly widening front would create new problems...
...answered the board's action with angry speeches and boos of derision. Frankly skeptical of a promise to continue fighting for the salary scale ($3,000 to $6,500) recommended by a city fact-finding commission, the teachers defiantly announced that they would continue their boycott: "Thirty-five thousand teachers cannot be charged with neglect of duty or insubordination...
...College was taken over by soldiers of the Revolution, and Harvard Hall became both a storehouse and the commissary for the entire army in Cambridge. Treatment was none too gentle at the hands of the occupying troops and the building suffered considerable damage, chiefly the loss of a thousand pounds of lead from its roof, which the soldiers converted into ammunition for their Revolutionary muzzle-loaders...