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Gentlemen:--Enclosed please find draft for four thousand and seventy dollars and fifty cents ($4070.50), which is hereby given to your Board by a few of the friends of Robert Fields Simes, to establish a fund, the principal of which shall be held by your Board with all the powers contained in the deed of trust dated October 1, 1901, and the income of which shall be used by your Board for the purchase of recently published books for the library of the Harvard Union. It is understood that this fund may receive additions later...
...made many interesting discoveries. In some of the mounds, altars with skeletons and implements of prehistoric ages were found. Battle-axes, bracelets, knives, the things which were most valued during life, all these were placed by their side when they were buried; on one altar as many as sixty thousand beads were found. Of especial interest are the pictures of serpents, which throw great light upon the serpent worship of the early peoples...
...once our Christianity with its distinctly western spirit. The Christian missionaries must be able to get hold of the spirit of the people. The next duty of the Church in the Philippines is to the American population. There are, exclusive of the Army and Navy, about seven or eight thousand Americans in Manila alone, and from them the natives get their ideas of our country. No official promises or reports can have any such effect over the natives, as will the actions of the Americans they see before them. To the American Church in the Philippines belongs the task...
...unique policy of the University as regards the degree of Bachelor of Arts. This degree is now required for admission to all of the Harvard professional schools, except the Dental School; and the persons receiving the degree of A.B. at Commencement now number nearly half of the thousand, and more, recipients of degrees. The policy of the University is to make the degree of A.B. the fundamental primary degree of the University, and to use no other in competition with it. The President proceeds to note these facts:--The greatly increased requirements for admission to the Harvard professional schools during...
Somewhat more than a hundred thousand Boer women and children have been driven from their homes and have been herded together in camps like those established by General Weyler in Cuba. For a considerable time the families of those still in the field were given only half rations, with the idea that the men, seeing their wives and children in a starving condition, would be driven to submission. Even in England this policy was so bitterly denounced that it had finally to be abandoned. The policy of extermination, however, whether the result of deliberation or indifference, has been continued...