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...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...
...work carried on this past year in Cambridge, and at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. The average of the highest altitudes obtained in each of the kite-flights, made in confection with observations taken at the latter station was 6,940 feet above sea-level, and the maximum in any flight 11,180 feet...
...Corporation has followed the wishes of the subscribers to the fund by making a number of promotions carrying increases of salary and by making the following increase of salaries, beginning with instructors whose appointment is without limit of time: Professors will receive $4000, to be increased to a maximum of $5500; associate professors will receive $3500, to be increased to $4500; assistant professors who are still eligible to promotion to a professorship, or an associate professorship, will be appointed at $2500 in the first five-year term and $3000 in the second five-year term as hitherto; instructors will receive...
...general result of this new scale, with the exceptions mentioned, is to increase by $500 the salary for each grade, from the salary of an assistant professor in his first term to the maximum salary of a professor...
...nuisance. The Graduate Treasurer's reports show that the number of University teams which collect subscriptions has increased from two in 1898 to seven in 1904. Receipts from other sources have steadily increased during this time, and there is no reason to think we have yet reached the maximum. Expenses have increased, but not out of proportion to the receipts...