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...connection with the desire expressed during the past summer by certain people in the district of Cambridgeport that the name of their post office should be changed to Cambridge, instead of Cambridgeport as it now is, an effort is now being made by the same interests to solve the difficulty by establishing a single central office to take the place of the two now in existence. Such a step would of course unite the two districts under the municipal name, Cambridge...
...will be remembered died last January, left the bulk of his property to five institutions: The Mass. General Hospital, the Homeopathic Hospital, the Boston Art Museum, Mass. Institute of Technology and 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...
...general idea that the crew would win this year as a matter of course; and, believing that over-confidence has been a fruitful cause of previous defeats, we simply wish to point out that the crew has worked under conditions this year which put it at a certain disadvantage, and which will make a victory all the more creditable. We sincerely regret it if anything has appeared in this column which can be construed as undervaluing the crew. The sole purpose of the editorial in question was to suggest to Harvard men that it takes more than one year...
...pleasure to note the generosity of certain graduates who have started a fund to send the crew to Philadelphia. We hope to see the fund made complete by the subscriptions of present members of the University...
...made for the comfort and welfare of the sick, and where he can equally have his own medical adviser and a special nurse as well if required, paying, in addition to the fees of the physician and the nurse, as he would pay them in his own rooms, a certain sum to the college house as he would pay for a room in a private hospital; the advantage over a private hospital being that the college house will be a part of and under the control of the University, and an institution in which he has a personal interest...