Word: metropolitan
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...gold medal by the Philadelphia Art Club, and received a silver medal from Leopold II of Belgium. He is an honorary member of the Cincinnati Art Club and of the Dickens Fellowship, and was curator for several years of the Departments of Ancient and Modern Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City...
...Harvard Co-operative Society has received from the Metropolitan Water Board a cheque for the sum of $13,333.84 in settlement of the Society's claim for damages to its building and stock as the result of the bursting of a water main in Harvard square on the evening of December 24th last. In addition to this amount the Co-operative is given the proceeds from the sale of all the damaged stock which is now being disposed of by a Boston salvage concern. The officers of the Co-operative Society greatly appreciate the promptness and fairness shown...
More than a passing word of gratitude is due the Metropolitan Water Board for the promptness and fairness with which it has compensated the Co-operative for damages caused by the bursting of a water main in Harvard square during the Christmas recess. It is of course true that the Co-operative Society had a legal right to compensation; but private claims against public authority are too often enforceable only by tedious and costly litigation; and it is a matter for congratulation that the Co-operative, in this adjustment, has had to deal with one of the most efficient...
Plans have been made by the Deutscher Verein for the production of a German comic opera in Boston under its auspices. Mr. Dippel, administrative manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, has been found willing to give such an opera during the engagement of the Opera Company at the Boston Opera House late this month. A guarantee will have to be given to the Opera Company and the Verein is now engaged procuring the pledges...
...accepted the position of associate editor of "Life," which he held for four years, only leaving to assume the position of editor-in-chief of "The Drawer." In the capacity of editor he has also been connected with "Harper's Magazine," "Literature," "Harper's Weekly," "The Metropolitan Magazine," and "Puck...