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...most valuable gift has been received by the Herbarium this year in the collection of autographs of botanists, given by Mrs. Asa Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist...
...committee of Harvard graduates appointed to raise a fund to purchase a gift for the auxiliary cruiser "Harvard," has collected the amount needed and authorized Commander Charles O'Neil, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance of the United States Navy to mount upon the cruiser, at the first opportunity, a six pounder Nordenfeldt gun with mount, shield and accessories. A plate attached to the gun will bear the Harvard seal and the following inscription...
...town and draws several unusually vivid characters, notably that of the hero, Peter. The plot is interesting from the first and the local color carefully given. It is stories of this type that are most valuable in college papers, for they strike out in original pathos and require the gift of narration in a large degree to be even fairly successful. "On the Way to the Club" is also original, and, though less pretentious, succeeds in its object. The third story, "Kelley's Scoop" is an account of how a sharp reporter outwitted the newspapers and the police and made...
...have already been subscribed by the graduates toward the gift for the cruiser "Harvard...
...Henry L. Higginson '55, George Blagden '56, George M. Barnard '57, J. Lewis Stackpole '57, Henry S. Russell '60, Thomas Sherwin '60, N. P. Hallowell '61, Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, and Charles W. Amory '63, have been sent to the graduates of Harvard, asking for subscriptions to purchase a gift for the auxiliary cruiser Harvard, U. S. N., individual subscriptions not to exceed five dollars...