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Since September the collections at the Gray Herbarium have been increased to the extent of several thousand specimens from various parts of the world. Among the acquisitions is a collection of Central American plants, 875 in number, presented by Captain J. Donnell Smith of Baltimore. Another, consisting of some 900 specimens, has come from Porto Rico. The United States Department of Agriculture has sent 621 specimens of American grasses; the Botanic Garden of the University of Vienna, 877 Austrian plants, and the New York Botanical Garden, 561 plants from Idaho and Montana. In addition, 852 specimens from the Galapagos Islands...
...Fogg Museum has recently received about one thousand photographs of Greek topography and works of art. The photographs are issued by the German Archaeological Institute of Athens. As they are unmounted they cannot be put on exhibition for some time...
...compete with an extra man from both Harvard and Columbia for a place on the team. It is probable, therefore, that either Harvard or Columbia will be represented by three men. The prize for which the international teams will compete is the Rice trophy, which is valued at one thousand dollars. The trophy is at present held by England...
...results accomplished have not been great, perhaps, yet they have been adequate to furnish the Association with a reason for being. The mere fact that nearly two thousand Harvard men who have left Cambridge and are occupied with the busy activities of life, have already joined the Association is significant as indicating the interest felt by those men in athletics at the University. This interest is by no means confined to the graduates fresh from college...