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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present year is characterized at the University of Pennsylvania by extraordinary activity in the direction of building. The new museums have been completed and occupied. They form a most striking addition, from an architectural point of view, to the group of university buildings, and offer abundant room for the great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school...
...estimated at $400,000, and it will be the finest building ever erected for the purpose. Dedicatory exercises are being arranged for the week of Washington's Birthday, at which all the justices of the U. S. Supreme Court, besides many distinguished attorneys, have been invited to be present...
...would submit to the consideration of the present Senior class, the desirability of dignifying the management of the promenade by the regular election, by the class itself, of a "promenade committee." I recognize that any class may well hesitate before making further innovations; that there is a natural desire to preserve the few traditional features still existing in undergraduate affairs. But as a matter of expediency, there certainly is fully as much justification for such a committee as for the existence of a "Photograph Committee." The election of a promenade committee would enable the Seniors, as a class, to confer...
...might be doing research work, but says: "If Professor Wendell has discovered a method by which his colleagues can publish the results of their original research with pecuniary profit to themselves, he has only to make it known to become Harvard's greatest benefactor." The third objection to the present relations between the institutions, that it causes the weakening of the intellectual fibre of the Harvard men who have courses at Radcliffe, is answered by Professor Byerly with a list of twenty-five professors "of whom the University and her sons are justly proud, and whom no one can suspect...
...Plain Facts about the Library," Professor W. C. Lane '81, elaborates on four present needs of the College Library, additional shelf room for books, study rooms for professor and advanced students, increased space for administration, and a better reading room. He says: "It is a singular fact that, at a time when the building of libraries has become a favorite form of public benefaction, Harvard has not received any great gift for a library building. It is useless to expect an ample equipment and a generous building from any other source." In summarizing the requirements, Professor Lane puts beauty first...