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...rather interesting fact has come to light, explaining how Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg was led to leave her recent bequest of $220,000 to Harvard College. It seems that it had been her intention to build an observatory in Central Park, New York City, in honor of her late husband. The memorial was to be magnificently built and equipped. In talking over her project with Professor Josiah P. Cooke, head of the chemistry department, Mrs. Fogg learned that she would be unable to build, with the money she had for the purpose, an observatory as thoroughly and finely equipped...
...letter [See above] referred to by you Monday failed to convey what I tried to make it say. You think it "expresses rather blindly the pride which the graduates take in an athletic victory," and add, "This man exults over our rowing record of years...
...could but result as they have. This fact is self-evident to any man with eyes, and why it has not been apparent to our crews is the inquiry on the lips of every graduate All this has filled me with disgust. This disgust is so intense that it rather amuses me to have a letter of mine on the subject misunderstood. I fancied that I felt so strongly that I could write what I felt...
...majority if the virtuosos on these instruments would take the hint themselves, or if the proctors would insist. It is even not too much to ask of any well-disposed man that he will play very little in the hours when he has a technical right. It rather hinders than helps the study of a Greek chorus, to hear latter-day choruses played in the next room all the evening, no matter how finely they are rendered...
...have received a communication from a member of the class of Seventy-four which expresses rather blindly the pride which the graduates take in an athletic victory. This man exults over our rowing record of years ago and bids us not forget that record. But what is the use of raking up the records of those old races, or even of trying to prove that we lead in total number of races won. The main question is how to win a race now, and if our loyal correspondent will send us his solution of the problem, we shall be glad...