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There are many other matters of importance treated in the document, among them the need of fellowships for productive scholars, the growth of extension work, and the advisability of thinking, going to college, and writing as early in life as possible. The undergraduate should take head of the need of money for buildings, most emphatically for the Chemistry Department, and especially for a general endowment for internal strengthening. The influence of the undergraduate, who is in touch with some alumni, and who soon will be an alumnus himself, is potential even in such a matter as the raising of money...
...Morris Class contributes a vivacious and readable article on Brahms physician and friend, Dr. Billroth, which constitutes an interesting "human document...
...Albert Matthews '82 read from a recent president's report announcing gifts to the University of more than two and a half million dollars and then turned to a similar document of 250 years ago in which it was announced that the College would purchase six leather chairs, provided the treasury could afford it. Mr. Matthews then told of the real start of the University, when John Harvard's bequest of $3,900 and his library enabled the institution to get on its feet. Although in those days boys as young as twelve often came to college, the entrance requirements...
...seems rare. Such expressions as, "The two lawyers . . . . are unusually realistic, perhaps due to the fact that," etc., such sentences as, "It has novelty, punch, heart interest, and almost all the other ingredients which go to make up a smashing success," should not be printed in a document that is sold for more than one cent. The only story in the number, My Friend of the Smoking Room, should be powerful or nothing. It is not powerful, nor is its style workmanlike; but it is an honest effort to express the struggle in a wrecked life. Little Doddy--or Much...
...interesting document has just been received by Mr. W. C. Lane, librarian, in a photograph of the earliest existing "broadside" triennial catalogue of the University. The photograph was taken from the only copy known to be existing, which is in the State Paper Office in London, and was contributed by Mr. Edward Bell '04 of the American embassy at London...