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Sixty-one thousand people is a larger crowd than has ever attended an event of any kind in New Haven, and while it is expected all tickets will be sold, it is nevertheless quite a problem as to how to take care of the ticket holders. The price of seats will remain at $2 each and each graduate of the university will be entitled to apply for four tickets. Persons holding a ticket privilege will have this opportunity in addition to their present right to seats. The same restrictions as to transfer or disposal of tickets will be enforced...
...Ward Nicholas Boylston, of Boston, made to the University the gift of one thousand dollars, which he invested in an annuity, the income to be applied to prizes for Elocution. The Boylston Prizes for Elocution are awarded to Seniors and Juniors in Harvard College at a public competition on the second Thursday in May. The students speak, not their own compositions, but selections from English, Greek, or Latin authors; the proportion in English is to be at least two out of three...
...Mary Elizabeth Washburn gave to the University the sum of two thousand dollars for the establishment of a prize in memory of her son, Philip Washburn, of the Class of 1882. On this foundation an annual prize of seventy-five dollars is offered for the best thesis, of sufficient merit, on an historical subject presented by a successful candidate for the degree of A. B. with Distinction in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, whose main work is in History...
...Harvard University attracts more than four thousand regular students each year, exclusive of Extension students and students in the Summer Schools. Of this total, four-sevenths come from New England. The other three-sevenths are distributed among all the other States of the Union and twenty-nine foreign countries...
...group of buildings forming the three sides of the eastern, minor court. These are the structures that are to be devoted to general studies and biology and public health. The east court foundations are about three hundred feet square and altogether there have been driven about five thousand piles, about one-fourth of the whole number required. No less than fifteen different sources of supply have been sought for this enormous quantity...