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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...building will stand on the corner of Quincy street and Broadway on the site now occupied by Professor Laugdell's house, facing south, and so arranged as to form with Sever Hall one side of a new quadrangle to be completed by a new building in the future. The construction will be of brick with Indiana limestone trimmings which will harmonize with Sever Hall and the Fogg Art Museum. The general character of the architecture will be Greek...
...site of the Infirmary has been changed by arrangement with the trustees of the Cambridge Hospital from between the Cambridge Hospital and the Old People's Home to the lot east of the hospital next the park. This change is of great advantage, for instead of facing east toward the hospital the main front of the Infirmary will now face north on the street...
...work of removing Warren House from its present site to make way for the Harvard Union will begin today and will be completed by July 1. The house will be moved back intact to the northeast corner of the lot near Prescott street. A barn which now stands there is being torn down. The excavation for the Union has been already started, and will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible...
Professor Hollis gives, in the opening article of the May Monthly, a summary of the statements which we have had at various times concerning the Harvard Union. After disposing of the various arguments against the Quincy street site, he describes the external appearance and internal arrangement of the building. No new plans have been devised and the question of a restaurant and of bed-rooms is still open. Professor Hollis closes with the observation that, contrary to first expectations, the smaller clubs are really the College element most interested in the success of the Union...
...this observation is to discover whether a body exists between Mercury and the sun. For the observation a photographic instrument has been constructed which will take pictures of stars of the eighth magnitude at the time of eclipse. Three weeks ago this instrument was sent to Washington, Georgia, the site selected for observing the eclipse, and it is now being mounted there. On Monday Professor Pickering will start South to complete the preparations. He will be accompanied by Mr. J. Rayner Edmands, who selected the site, and by Mr. Attwill, who will take the photographs. A few days before...