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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...importance of the five thousand dollar drive between now and Saturday is perhaps best shown by the statement of the Brooks House management itself: "We depend mainly upon contributions from friends of Phillips Brooks House who wish in this way to show their appreciation of the work carried on by the Association...
...Library is one of a type and calibre that proved themselves very efficient in the recent war. Throwing a projectile weighing around ninety-five pounds at a maximum muzzle velocity of twenty-three hundred and eighty feet per second it attains a maximum range of about seventeen thousand yards. It was the mainstay of the American and French armies in medium field rifles, and improvements in gun and projectile were being rapidly made when the armistices was signed...
...second floor an excellent library of several thousand volumes will provide the members with a quiet spot for general reading or studying. The library will be brought up to date by the acquisition of new books from time to time, and will be maintained under the direction of a library committee, comprised of several members of the faculty...
...names of 38,149 University men now living, arranged in alphabetical order, together with their degrees, addresses, and occupations will be contained in the 1919 edition of the University Directory which will be ready for distribution on November 1. This total is nearly three thousand greater than that of the 1913 edition...
...cent. correct when it is issued. During the three months intervening between sending out the proof sheets and going to press changes took place at the rate of more than 2,000 a month, and it is expected that in spite of the most painstaking work more than three thousand addresses will be out of date when the directory is issued. The difficulty is increased by the fact that 1,551 men are now carried on the records as lost, no record of their whereabouts or occupation being available. These names will be printed in the 1919 edition...