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...Four thousand, nine hundred and twenty men of American universities have given their lives in the great war, of whom, the University, with 297, or nearly three per cent, of the teachers, graduates, and former and present students who took an active part in the great struggle, has lost a larger number than any other institution. The figures, which have just been compiled, are not complete, as men are still dying of wounds suffered or diseases contracted during the war. It is safe to say that the whole number of those who have been killed will be close...
...University auditorium would not necessarily be similar to that shown above, the Hill Memorial gives a good idea of the type of building that is needed here. The main floor contains seats for about 800 people, which, combined with the balcony and gallery, makes accommodations for over a thousand spectators. In addition to the main lecture hall, which contains a large organ, there are several dressing rooms, lobbies, rest rooms, and check rooms, which complete the equipment of the building...
...University there is a great need for an auditorium such as this, which would have a seating capacity for more than one thousand people. At present the New Lecture Hall is the only place in which, athletic mass meetings, and other undergraduate demonstrations may be held, and that buildings is already being outgrown. Another need of a large auditorium appears now, as it does annually, in the lack of a suitable place in which to hold the Commencement exercises, where more of the guests may witness them. Again, if an adequate auditorium were provided it would afford a better place...
...Eighteen thousand Harvard men have been examined by Dr. Sargent during his career at the University and more books on the general subject of athletic training have come from his pen than from any other authority in the world...
...memory of Joseph H. Choate '52, the Harvard Club of New York City has founded the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship. This represents a gift to the University of a principal sum of forty thousand dollars, or a larger sum if the subscriptions warrant it. The yearly income from this is to be enjoyed by a British subject coming from the University of Cambridge, England, to study in any department of this University. As John Harvard was graduated from Emmanuel College. Cambridge, in 1631, the committee in charge of the Fellowship is hoping that it may serve as a model...