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...university authorities at Yale have received notice from the Post Office Department at Washington that a post office station will be established on the campus, to be officially known as Yale Station, New Haven, Conn. The plan is to open the office next fall in two rooms of North College Hall with a separate box for every dormitory room in the college buildings and also boxes which may be rented by college men living in private buildings...
...office will be in the charge of two clerks, appointed and paid by the government, under regular civil service rules. There will be as many deliveries as at the central station and the office hours will be from 8 a. m. until 8 p. m. week days and from 12 m. until 1.30 p.m. Sundays...
From an artistic point the pictures are valuable inasmuch as they give detailed and distant effects. Of these, "The Frost Work on Old Signal Station" and "Crawford Ridge from Mt. Washington" are especially interesting. The most striking picture in the entire collection, however, is a moonlight photograph of Adams and Jefferson Mountains, taken at midnight from Mt. Washington. In this picture a brilliant aurora, as well as electric lights in a town fifteen miles distant are clearly shown...
...distances we are discussing appear vastly more important when it is remembered that very shortly we shall depend for transit on an elevated railway, which will have one station at Harvard or Brattle square, another at Putnam square, and none between. This will affect students as they come and go from Boston. A club requiring a third of a mile walk will not be a natural stopping place for students coming from town, nor will it be convenient to graduates who have attended a game at Soldiers Field; these will think twice before they walk the required distance...
...production of tropical foods, fruits and fibres, that a branch garden, under the direction of the Harvard Botanic Garden, might prove attractive and very useful. The whole subject is now receiving careful consideration and the most favored plan contemplates the establishment, in southern Cuba, of an experiment station which could be employed by advanced students who desire to familiarize themselves with the general features of the cultivation and improvement of tropical plants...