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...donation of one month's subscription to several of the leading newspapers of Continental Europe to the Library of the Union has been greeted with considerable interest among the members of the University. Sufficient interest has been shown so that the member of the Union who made the original gift has evinced his willingness to continue the subscription for the present...
...most striking exhibit is, perhaps, Pistrueel's Large Waterloo Medal. This is the gift of Sir Robert Horne, Chancellor of the Exchequer through Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, M. P. It is over five inches in diameter and covered with the most exquisite detail. This is of such minute detail that only gutta-percha impressions have been taken from the original mold...
...discovering whether this interest exists is to ask men to sign their name in blue books stationed about the Union. There are some who will forget to sign, others who will enter their names without meaning a thing by it. In all fairness to the donor of the gift, the blue books should be filled out honestly. Don't put your name down if you are not interested; don't forget to put it down...
Other important acquisitions in the Department are three Indian portrait miniatures of the Mughal School of the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, the gift of Mr. Denman W. Ross...
...Union was founded in 1899, the building being the gift of Major Henry Lee Higginson, who acted as president until his death last year. From the date of its foundation until 1917 the Union was operated apart from the University. In 1917 its functions were temporarily suspended. During the war it was used one year as a University dining hall and one year as a mess hall for the Ensign and Radio Schools. After the war, the Corporation decided to take over the Union as a part of the University. It was then that the large lecture program which...