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...thousand of the medals have been struck in bronze, and many of them have already been sold at the various Harvard clubs throughout the country. There are a number left, however, and if there is a demand for more, fresh dies will be prepared from the original placque, and new medals will be struck...
...expected that the seating capacity for the Yale game will be about six thousand less than it was two years ago, and none but undergraduates and graduates of the two universities will be able to obtain seats...
...every year. In addition, all our little country villages are being swallowed up year after year and others are growing every day. Another problem is the appalling overcrowding of London which we already have. The mortality is terrible, especially among children, of whom 52 out of every thousand die yearly, whereas the ordinary rate is not more than 18. At least half of these deaths are due to preventable diseases. The immorality of our women we are fighting day by day. The large, hungry, starving crowd of the unemployed which march through London every winter present another enormous problem. Besides...
...celebrated in Richmond, V,. During his short stay in the south he has completely won the hearts of the people by his simple, unaffected manner and by his vigorous Christian words. On Sunday afternoon, when he gave his farewell address at a great open air mass meeting, fully five thousand people crowded the steps of the Capital at Richmond to hear him speak. Bishop Lawrence '71, as chairman of the house of bishops presided, and led the meeting in devotions. Prominent among those present were Robert Treat Paine '55 and Mr. C. G. Sanders...
DEAR SIRS:--It is my wish to endow the Professorship of Otology in the Medical School of Harvard College in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, the Professorship to bear the name of "Walter Augustus Lecompte," this sum to be kept as a separate fund under the name given, and any surplus of income not needed to pay the salary of the incumbent to be devoted to defraying the expenses of the Department of Otology in the Medical School of Harvard College. Yours truly, FRANCIS D. LECOMITE...