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...people were therefore denounced as degenerates. Many good Americans (even the Boston school board, I am told) threatened to boycott the Exposition. In South Africa today the mismanagement and indifference of the British government are responsible not merely for one man's misfortune, but for the death of several thousand women and children every month and for an incalculable measure of suffering...
...proposed to raise twenty thousand dollars by subscription among Harvard graduates in order to pay for the land and construction of the new course...
...committee appointed by the Association of Class Secretaries last December to draw up a circular on the Union has been in conference with Professor Hollis and H. K. Brent '98, and will soon send out to graduates and former members of the University about eight thousand illustrated pamphlets on the advantages of the Union...
...first issue, which will appear on March 1, will deal largely with Peirce Hall, giving a minute description of the building, with illustrations. Over a thousand copies will be printed, many of which will be sent about to various educational institutions of the country. The succeeding issues will contain short articles by editors and others on topics connected with Engineering. Instructors in Engineering courses will be given an opportunity to have published in the Journal articles connected with their courses, and notes for the use of students...
...principal addition is Mr. Agassiz's gift of the Davis and McConathy collection of palaeozoic corals. The Davis collection contains more than eight thousand lots and includes many remarkably fine specimens. The chief addition to the exhibition collections is a series of Japanese siliceous sponges for the Pacific room. The installation of the Bangs collection of mammals, containing about 10,000 specimens, chiefly from North America, is now complete, and the old museum collection has been incorporated with it in a separate room. The collection includes a large and valuable series of South American mammals which have been received from...