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...last meeting of each month at this branch is regularly conducted by Harvard students. Aside from this work, which is directly under the supervision of the Y. M. C. A., considerable work is being done by members on their own account. Several teach on certain nights in the week at a boys' club connected with the North End Union, several are engaged in work connected with settlement houses in Boston, and others are helping in the work of the Associated Charities...
...Certain observations at Cambridge are each year rendered more difficult. The introduction of electric lights, especially in the vicinity of the observatory, greatly interferes with the observation of faint objects. Additional trouble is anticipated from the proposed introduction of electric cars on Concord Avenue, which forms the southern boundary of the grounds of the observatory...
Among the specimens illustrating the products of maize is a set of twenty-five large jars obtained through the kindness of Professor Sharples. Among the principal ones are starch, British gum, American gum, closely resembling gum arabic, certain sugars and caramels, corn oil, gluten meal, and the various cattle feeds. Near this are ears of corn illustrating the more important varieties of maize, from that of Mexico, in which each kernel is covered with a separate husk, to the very minute ears of the smallest popcorn. As opportunity offers, the other cereals are to be illustrated in the same...
...directors of the Cooperative Society have under consideration a proposal to establish a new department in its business, by keeping in stock and selling certain kinds of cooked food. An opportunity exists for securing soups and other articles of food, thoroughly and neatly prepared, and of high nutritive quality, in a form which makes it feasible to carry them away and use them at clubs or rooms. Before taking any steps, the directors wish to get some indication as to the probable demand for such articles, and have appointed a committee, of which I am chairman, to make inquiries...
President Coulter of Lake Forest University in a recent address presented the following statistics concerning the expenses of some of the larger institutions of learning. The figures are of interest as showing that nearly every college man is in a certain sense educated by charity...