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Including the excess of the year 1928-29 the Harvard Athletic Association has a surplus of $611,111.62. Five hundred thousand dollars of this total will be applied to the completion of the indoor athletic building now under construction. The new construction will cost $1,200,000 and the Athletic Association has gifts totalling $700,000. The balance remaining in the Athletic Association's surplus will be $111,111.62. Of the gifts made to the Harvard Athletic Association for the erection of the new gymnasium $250,000 was given with the understanding that $200,000 would be paid...
...work was begun in the fall of 1921, and is therefore in its ninth year. The first measurements were made on a group of several thousand children shortly after their entrance into school. These children have been measured each succeeding year, and it is the intention of the investigators to continue the measurement for a total period of about 12 years, or as long as the majority of the "subjects" remain in school...
...Graduate School of Education with its new endowment of sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars has at last come into some of its rightful heritage as an institution for recognized professional training. In the past it has received far less financial aid than the other graduate schools in Harvard, and for some time it looked as if it would be just another case of the flower wasting its sweetness on a very arid desert air. Fortunately this impression has now been proved unfounded and the school is being offered some materials and opportunity for development...
...threat to Germany on the East, following the collapse of Russia as a fighting force, to guard supplies, to keep U-boats out of the cold White Sea. But objectives became muddled. The Allied troops numbered some 27,000, of which 5,100 were U. S. soldiers. Twenty thousand "White" Russians joined them. The enemy became the Bolsheviki...
...phenomenon discovered through studies of the motion of the moon. For some years we have been familiar with the fact that the earth's rotation is slowing down, that the day is lengthening, and that the moon is receeding; we have learned that after an interval of some fifty thousand million years the month and the day will be the same length again, as they were at the time the earth-moon system was formed. That equality of month and day in the future will be forty seven of our days in length; at the time of the origin...