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While the lecturer is best known as a great physician, he has always taken a deep and active interest in the Oxford Press which was founded in the fifteenth century and has grown to be an enormous plant with its own type-foundries and paper-mills. Lantern slides will aid in the description of the Press. The lecture is given by invitation of the Syndics of the Harvard University Press and will be open to the public although a few seats will be reserved
...formal housefarming of the new Club house of the Speakers' Club took place last evening with a banquet attended by over fifty men. Among the guests present were Dean Hurlbut, Professor I. L. Winter '86, largely to whose influence and aid the club has grown to its present size and prosperity, Mr. B. S. Van Rensellaer '10, the first president of the club, and Mr. R. S. Gorham '85, a prominent Boston lawyer and a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce...
...over half a century. The proposal to build a permanent home for the President of the University was made first by the Honorable Peter C. Brooks, in 1846, when he contributed $10,000 for the proposed building. It was not until fifteen years later, however, when the fund had grown to $16,000, that the house was completed. President Felton moved into it during the summer of 1861, living there less than a year. President Hill resided there from 1862 to 1868, when President Eliot succeeded him. President Lowell has occupied the house since...
...reorganization consisted in the change from the Harvard Club of Boston (a voluntary organization) to the Harvard Club of Boston, Incorporated. Since the organization of the Club in 1908 the membership has grown from 22 to 1,465. The announcement of the purpose to build a clubhouse in December has resulted in over 1600 applications for membership...
...existence of three or four dormitories, each large enough and distinctive enough in appearance to have a corporate sentiment, will give a chance for the intramural games and rivalry that we have lacked since the College has grown large; and will thus tend to throw men together rather than keep them apart. They will stimulate activity and interest, for the defect of the Freshman Year has hitherto been a tendency to indolence and apathy which is always the chief cause of mischievous pleasure-seeking. If the dormitories do not result in a more enjoyable, as well as a more serious...