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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...kind, with the result that the Corporation has felt seriously the need of ready funds for making improvements along the most needed lines. Now, however, that one of the largest gifts of recent years has come to the Corporation, this last summer, with no conditions imposed as to its use, we may look for several improvements which have long been desirable but which it has thus far been impossible to make. One addition, in particular, to the University, which has become almost a necessity is the proposed infirmary. This matter has been agitated for two years or more...
...Harvard. It has taken some time to arrange the provisions of the will, but it is now certain that these five institutions will receive not far from three-quarters of a million each. The Corporation of the University has not as yet planned any definite purpose for the use of this rich endowment. A part will doubtless go to the enlargement of the Library, while the rest will be devoted to widening the scope of the various departments...
...field. If possible, both will be on the same axis, pointing northwest, with an outlook directly across the marsh, which after the park improvements are made will be a very pleasant one. The gridiron and all that part of the field within the running track will be prepared for use by first stripping off the surface to a depth of about one foot and then grading. The dirt removed in grading will be thrown over the dike in the extreme western corner of the field to obtain room for an extension of the track. After leveling and removing all dirt...
...buildings to be erected, it is in the first place necessary to improve the present locker building and to build a cage for the use of the nine. It is hoped that enough money can be raised for a baseball pavilion to be placed behind the backstop, and also for small locker houses beneath the seats of the football field for the greater convenience of the players. The steel seats now on Holmes Field will be moved over during the summer to form the side seats for both fields, and money must be raised to build new steel ones...
...Boston graduates held ten days ago at the University Club, the following committee of five were appointed to take immediate steps toward raising the $25,000 still necessary for field improvements, the total cost of which is estimated at $47,000, about $22,000 being already available for use: Prof. Alexander Agassiz '55, A. P. Garner '88, Prof. Hollis, C. F. Adams, 3d, '88, S. D. Warren '75. A large item will be the cost...