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Before the end of this week the editorial and business departments of the CRIMSON will be moved into the new and commodious quarters on Massachusetts avenue. Within the last few years the work of the CRIMSON has increased rapidly in scope and the enlargement of the staff has made imperative a corresponding enlargement of the working space. Then, too, the CRIMSON office has become the headquarters for Harvard news of the leading Boston, New York and Philadelphia papers as well as of the principal news-getting associations, for whose correspondents desk-room is provided...
...done only as a result of interesting other classes better able financially to assume the initial expense of developing and establishing this method of instruction. When it is once firmly established in a community for one class of society, means will be found of enlarging its scope and usefulness so as to include all. The friends of extension can certainly not be satisfied with anything less than this...
...commended, but which must be read with discrimination, are: A Shadow of Dante, by Miss M. F. Rossetti, London, 1871; A Companion to Dante from the German of Scartazzini, by A. J. Butler, London, 1893 (valuable, but with much questionable speculation and interpretation); Dante's Divine Comedy, its Scope and Value, by Hettinger, translated by Bowden, London, 1887 (interesting, but not always trustworthy); the essays on Dante by Lowell, Church, Caird and Carlyle, in their respective works...
...extension of the Medical School course from three to four years. The efforts to accomplish this have always been considerably impeded by lack of funds. But during the last few years the school's growth has been such as to almost necessitate steps for the extension of its scope being made, in line with what the Law School has already done. The committee appointed by the Medical School Faculty to prepare plans for the extension of the course, has not yet made its report and no definite steps can be taken till it has done...
...revolving lectureship, the incumbent of which is to deliver lectures at Yale, among other colleges, is peculiarly gratifying, inasmuch as the opportunities of hearing men of attainment are rare at Yale at present. These lectures will doubtless prove to be very interesting, as a civic subject, similar in scope to the questions to which Mr. Curtis devoted his life work, will be chosen by the holder of the lectureship...