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...furnishing over 12,000 alumni with information of immediate interest. Mr. Wells will continue in his capacity as secretary for appointments, and this work will be conducted as part of his duties as secretary of the alumni. As soon as the new quarters are in working order, the task of making a complete list of all living Harvard men will be started. I. T. Burr '79, has undertaken the work of securing the necessary financial support...
...winning combination.) I desire also that the cups should be known as the 'Filley Cups,' not only for reasons of personal friendship, but as an expression, as well, of gratitude, shared, I am sure, by the whole University, for a painstaking and single-hearted devotion to the task of developing and perfecting the secondary rowing here at Harvard. Yours very sincerely, B. APTHORP GOULD FULLER...
...good fortune to live until the purposes he had labored for through many years had been accomplished or were in good promise of rapid fulfilment; and although he did not see the full fruition of his work, the time had come when he could say that his great task for Harvard was practically done: the development of what he has accomplished can now be safely left to other hands. The place that he leaves empty in the hearts of his friends no one can fill. B. S. HURLBUT...
...Professor Kuhnemann was Privatdozent at the University of Marburg, and in 1901 he was made Professor Extraordinarius. In 1903 he was called to Bonn, and in the same year he was charged by the Prussian Government with organizing the newly founded Royal Academy at Posen, a task which he fulfilled with singular success. In the autumn of 1905, he was sent by his government on a lecturing tour through the United States, during which he spoke to audiences in most of the important cities and universities...
...will start the season only fairly well off. Nine of the sixteen men who played in the Yale game last fall will return to College next year but of this number several will probable be ineligible on account of studies so that the coaches will probably have a difficult task to get the team together early in the season...