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...portrait was a gift to President Eliot on his seventieth birthday and resulted from a subscription fund of over $5000 raised by Burgess and others in 1904. The first sketching was made two years ago, during President Eliot's visit to England. As a companion to that of Major H. L. Higginson, painted also by Sargent, the portrait will hand in the same position which has been previously occupied by that of John Quincy Adams...
...tickets has signed that they are for the use of himself and his personal friends only. A strict interpretation of "personal friends" is necessary: one should be most careful to discriminate between his own personal friends and those people whom he would like to fee in some way. The gift of Class Day tickets as fees combines a minimum cost with a maximum appreciation, but this very fact, that they are gladly received, shows that others have not considered such people as personal friends...
...library has just received a valuable shipment of books on Swiss History, a gift from W.B. Cutting, Jr., '06 and Assistant Professor A.C. Coolidge '87. There are about 400 volumes in the collection. Mr. Cutting, who is at present living at St. Moutz, Switzerland, has devoted much time during the past winter to gathering these books. The collection contains many valuable old books and later treatises on the various points of Swiss history...
...Library has just received as a gift from Mrs. Paine the manuscript copy of the score on which the late Professor J.K. Paine h.'69 was at work at the time of his death. It is entitled "Lincoln, a Tragic Tone Poem," and consists of twenty-six folio pages of music. Professor Paine had in mind for many years this work, which he hoped would be his greatest achievement...
...department of Engineering has just received as a gift from the Western Electric Company of New York City a valuable lot of telephone apparatus. It includes the equipment for a common battery telephone exchange, such as is used in all large cities, and material for a magneto-automatic telephone exchange, for use in small towns. There is also a complete equipment for a four-party line and a large assortment of switchboard and lead-covered street telephone cable. A number of transmitters and receivers have, in addition, been received from the American Bell Telephone Company...