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...signifies, is interested mainly in getting together material relating to western history, although a vast deal of this material lies in the desks and attics in the "down East" States. The Commission has been very careful to make clear the point that it is not seeking to draw exceptional local material away from those points of which it is more interpretive, but is rather interested in securing typical material and that relating to the larger inter-state and national fields, such as material for the study of the development of western transportation and the great hegira of the Fortyniners...
...Graduate School of Medicine has recently adopted a plan which gives good promise of increasing the usefulness of the School to local practising physicians. It has hitherto been possible for regular students of the Medical School to purchase coupons to be used for admission to separate lectures and clinics enabling them "to exercise a wider choice and to secure greater elasticity in their plans for study." Now this opportunity is extended to graduates of recognized medical schools. One of the coupons may be applied to subscribing for the "Monthly Announcement of the Harvard Graduate School of Medicine," a publication which...
Although the University will not be represented in the state contest this year, a local competition is likely to be held here under the auspices of the Speakers' Club, for which Dr. James L. Tryon, Secretary of the Massachusetts Peace Society announces a special prize...
...time of the staff there is spent in research work which is recorded in the seventy-five quarto volumes published by the institution. It is part of a great international plan for the purpose of studying the heavens and all of its work has not so much local as international significance. A society representing all the leading nations divided the sky into about twenty zones for the purpose of thorough observation and two of these zones were taken by the Harvard Observatory...
...with the Syracuse Hockey Club on December 27 the Harvard seven displayed good form and won by a score of 5 to 2. In the first half the work was mainly individual rather than team-play, but later a smoothly running scoring machine was developed that swept by the local defense. The defense work of Willetts and Claflin was so good that Syracuse could do very little, in fact its only scores were the result of lucky stabs by Ringer, from free-for-all scrim- mages. Wanamaker, who went in for Clark in the second period, scored three goals, mainly...