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Professor J. B. Woodworth '94, of the geological department, will return to Cambridge today from an eight months' scientific investigation in South America. This was the first of a series of similar trips provided for by the Shaler Memorial Fund, a $30,000 gift presented to the University in 1907 by friends of the late Dean N. S. Shaler...
...working daily, the largest number in years. Of the freshmen there are 11 squads working on the machines. Rowing in the tank has been superseded altogether by practice on the machines, and the university squad is expected to be on the water very soon. Two new English boats, similar to those which Harvard has, have been received and will be given an early trial...
...their rank, according to the figures in the College office. No man was considered for election from outside this select group of scholars. For some years to attempt was made to broaden the qualifications for membership and the result was the society narrowed down into a group of men similar to those recently described by President Hadley of Yale as "professional scholars." Another and more dangerous result was a loss of prestige and influence in the University...
...lowest it has been in five years and there has been a general decrease from all the New England states, with slight ups and downs, in the last five years. It is difficult to draw any accurate conclusions from the figures of the states with smaller representations. Comparing similar statistics during the period from 1904 to 1908, there has been a gradual increase in California and Washington on the Coast and a corresponding increase in the Middle Western states of Iowa, Minnesota, and Indiana. New York and Illinois have decreased during this period while Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio have...
Professor Charles Homer Haskins has been professor of history in the University since 1902, coming from the University of Wisconsin where he had held a similar chair since 1892. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins of the class of 1887 and also received the degree of Ph.D. there in 1890. He studied at Berlin and Paris and became an instructor at Johns Hopkins whence he went to Wisconsin. Professor Haskins is now chairman of the department of History and Political Science. He was born in Meadville, Pa., December...