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...strong to apply to the average of the mayor. Therefore the appointments would be much better, if the mayor were not subject to a confirming board. The mayor's responsibility is much greater than that of the board of aldermen, for there is not one man in a thousand who would ever think of blaming the latter...
...departments last year, though as the president remarks all departments had "unsatisfied desires." It is always true of a great university that its income is never sufficient to meet all the wants which are constantly arising. The annual expenditure of Harvard has gone up to more than nine hundred thousand dollars, and yet much more than this could be advantageously spent. This enormous sum only covers the ordinary expenditures. For the many special needs there must be special gifts. And in this year's report the president mentions special needs in almost every department of the University. The first...
...thousand nine hundred and forty six dollars has already been subscribed by Princeton undergraduates for the Brokaw Memorial...
...physical department of Amherst, under Dr. Edward Hitchcock, has compiled anthropometric tables, under fifty-five items, of the average measurements of bodies, proportions and tests of strength obtained during the college years 1861-2 to 1889-90 from the study of nearly eight thousand Amherst students from 17 to 21 years...
...house. Through the assistance of the American Minister of Bolivia, Mr. Anderson, an expedition of much archaeological interest, was made to Tiahuanuco and the sacred islands of the Incas on Lake Titicaca. A trip was also made to the summit of El Misti, a nearly extinct volcano, some nineteen thousand feet in height...