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Special efforts will be made next fall to increase the value of the furniture loan system by thoroughly overhauling the sets and putting them in perfect repair. When this has been done there will be fifty-one complete sets of oak furniture for which students may apply; and, in addition to these, partial sets now used by about twenty men will be offered. Each lot of furniture is sufficient for a study and bedroom. A rental of $7.50 for the year is charged, but of this sum $2.50 is refunded at the end of the term, provided that the pieces...
...received from France by Professor de Sumichrast. In full relief on the face of the medal is the head of a girl in classic head-dress and wreathed with laurel, typifying the spirit of the French Republic. On the back is a scroll bearing the date 1900, surrounded by oak, laurel and Egyptian palm leaves. "University Harvard Medaile Pasteur" is inscribed about the scroll. The medal is two and one-half inches in diameter and contains five hundred Frances's worth of gold. It is exceedingly well wrought and designed, and is the work of Alphonse Desaide, a noted Parisian...
Length over all, 51 feet; beam, 7 feet 9 inches; square stern; timbers and frames of selected white oak, planked with white cedar in two thicknesses, the inner layer 1-2 inch, outer planking 5-8 inch; copper-fastened and riveted through timbers; garboards and upper strake of white oak; stern and planksheer of selected teak; decks laid in narrow strips of white pine; coaming for cockpit of quartered oak. In the after end of the forward cockpit is a bulkhead, forward of the boller bulkhead, in which is placed the steering wheel, this space is the full width...
...night. The treasurer announced that more than the requisite $35,000 had already been received. June first was the final date for sending contributions, but there is still need for more, as it is important to buy another piece of land in order to preserve one of the finest oak trees on the estate, and to put up some kind of stone memorial. A committee, of which President Eliot is one, was appointed to turn over to the Cambridge Park Commissioners the land already bought...
DANA CHAMBERS.- Two choice corner singles. Large window seats. All quartered oak finish. Best of plumbing. Steam heat. Gas and electric light. Hard wood floors. Send for pamphlet or call at Cambridge Savings Bank, Cambridge...