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...Association of Harvard Engineers, in conjunction with which the dinner is held, was founded last year by Harvard graduates in that profession, in order to facilitate the recognition of Harvard engineers in the world at large, and to be of aid to recent engineering graduates...
...connection with the recent agitation for the improvement of the Yard dormitories, we should like to suggest a change in the rules for applying for rooms in these buildings. At present the rooms in the three Senior dormitories are allotted in the middle of February, and applications for the other College buildings are due in April. By this time practically all the rooms in outside buildings have been allotted, and if the applications for Yard rooms are unsuccessful, there is but little chance of getting any but inferior lodgings. Every year many applications for the Senior dormitories fail...
President Thwing of Western Reserve University writes on "President Eliot's Message," giving a cordial appreciation of the character and work of the President. President Hyde of Bowdoin has an excellent review of Mr. Eliot's recent volume on "University Administration." Mr. W.R. Thayer writes on "Comparisons: 1869-1909," showing in concrete form a few of the great changes under President Eliot's administration. His list of the buildings added is a sad one; by no stretch of the imagination can many of these be called beautiful. He demonstrates clearly that Harvard is the poor man's college...
Professor Merriman writes with bubbling enthusiasm of the winter quarter. The articles of interest on the last few months include one on the late Dean Wright by his temporary successor, Professor Smyth, loving and sympathetic in tone towards one to whose unfailing kindness all graduate students of recent years owe a debt never to be forgotten. Dean Haskins is welcomed in a cordial editorial. Mr. R.H. Dana as laudator temporis acti shows that last year's success in rowing is due to a return to earlier ways. Professor Jackson gives a review of the work of the late Wolcott Gibbs...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Regeneration in Planarian Eye." Mr. E. A. Boyden. "Recent Work in Sex Inheritance and Inheritance of Color." Professor Castle and Mr. Little. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...