Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Social Service Committee has recently issued a leaflet in regard to the Social Service library stated a year ago. To secure the best possible library on social subjects, the Committee wrote to twenty-eight English and American experts, asking each one to recommend ten books suitable for such a library. About one hundred of the books recommended have been bough, and the collection is being kept up to date. The leaflet which has been prepared by the Committee calls attention to these books, expressing the hope that the library will be freely used by members of the University. As characteristic...
...Magrane '03 was awarded the Ricardo Prize Scholarship of $350 for the year 1902-1903. He wrote on "The State Regulation of Railway Rates." Each candidate was called on to write an essay in the examination room, on a topic chosen by himself, from a list not previously announced in economics and political science...
...Grower Flint '88 will speak at the Union at 7.15 tonight on "The Philippines." Mr. Flint was in Cuba during the Cuban revolution and wrote a book on his experiences while there, entitled, "With Gomez in Cuba." When the trouble with the United States broke out Mr. Flint received a lieutenancy in the volunteer army. Later he served two years in the Philippines. Mr. Flint in his talk this evening will make a resume of the causes of the war against the Philippines and will discuss the methods of the campaign as compared with British campaigns in similar countries...
...library is using as an autograph book for the names of distinguished visitors a handsomely bound volume which was sent over from England in 1765 by Thomas Hollis, a liberal benefactor of the University in the eighteenth century. On the first page he wrote this inscription: "This book was bound long since to serve a noble purpose. It may still serve some noble purpose in Cambridge in New England." For over a hundred and thirty-five years the volume has remained in the library unused, but henceforth it is to be kept for the signatures of visitors. The first signatures...
...Roux began by giving an account of his personal relations with Alphonse Daudet. He told of the encouragement he received from Daudet and of how he wrote some of his earlier essays in collaboration with...