Pay as you go policy reaffirmed at Boston University
Boston University trustees reaffirm the pay as you go policy in the 1913 14 annual report by President Lemuel H Murlin. No new budget until all proposed expenditures are secured by income or pledges. Endowment gains and student growth cited with calls for broader endowment and new departments.
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Boston University
Lemuel H Murlin
College of Liberal Arts
University
Boston
Marlin
College of Business Administration
Department of Education
Department of Religious Education
W. M. Warren
L. J. Birney
School of Theology
Homer Albers
School of Law
William H. Taft
John P. Sutherland
School of Medicine
Everett W. Lord
William S. Huntington
Graduate School
Switchman Seeks Death In Dorchester Tragedy
Frank S. Spencer 45 of 74 Romsey Street Dorchester killed himself with a pistol at the Bay State House 382 Hanover Street yesterday afternoon. A note in his pocket read Let me die as I have lived alone. Family life described as ideal with a wife and four children Richard Francis Charles and Marion. He was a switchman for the Boston and Maine railroad and left home Tuesday morning for work.
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Frank S. Spencer
Romsey Street
Dorchester
Bay State House
Hanover Street
Spencer
Richard
Vermont
Francis
Charles
Marion
Boston & Maine Railroad
Suffrage Envoys Leave for New York Conference
Massachusetts suffrage envoys left Boston yesterday to attend the first of four interstate conferences called by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt in New York. The delegates were Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Mrs. Gertrude Halliday Leonard, and Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham.
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Massachusetts
Boston
Carrie Chapman Catt
New York
Catt
Alice Stone Blackwell
Equal Suffrage Organization
Gertrude Halliday Leonard
Wenona Osborne Pinkham
Women Make Trade Appeal to Buy American Goods
The Woman's Board of Trade drafts a nationwide circular urging American-made cotton goods to boost employment in New England mills. It calls on leading society women and wealth holders to keep billions in the U S and cites President Wilson receiving a copy of the message.
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South
New England
Woman's Board of Trade
United States
Board of Trade
Wilson
America
South End Man Dies After Self Inflicted Shootings
Alexander McPherson of 160 West Brookline Street South End died at City Hospital yesterday from self inflected gunshot wounds. The 55 year old left a wife and daughter after a despondent mood led him to fire three shots in the basement of his home a week prior.
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Alexander McPherson
West Brookline Street
South End
Old T Wharfs Hope for New Rival in Fish Trade
Talks of a rival stock company at Long Wharf surfaced after Boston fisheries shifted to the South Boston plant. About 50 captains from Provincetown Gloucester and Boston attended a Fishing Masters Association meeting. no action disclosed. Major firms dominate the South Boston pier and could oppose a new competitor, risking a fish war and price drops.
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Boston
South Boston
Fishing Masters’ Association
Long
Provincetown
Gloucester
Lightship 85 Shelters Amid North East Storm
The Nantucket lightship No. 85, en route to its station after repairs at Woods Hole, was forced to shelter between Gay Head and No Man's Land due to a second north east storm in a week. It is expected to resume course once weather moderates.
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Gay Head
Nantucket
Woods Hole
No Man's Land
Harvard Club Play to Be Given Tonight
The Harvard Dramatic Club presents its 18th annual production in Copsey Hall this evening. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, a comedy by Winifred Hawkridge, features Harvard students in male roles and New England Conservatory of Music students in female parts.
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Boston
Harvard Dramatic Club
Copsey Hall
Peter
Pumpkin Eater
Winifred Hawkridge
Radcliffe College
Harvard
New England Conservatory of Music
Receivers Appointed for Canton Electric Co
William J. Murdock and Clarence C. Colby were named receivers for the Samson Electric Company of Canton by Judge Dodge in the United States District Court. Bonds set at $5000 each. liabilities about $97,003 with assets at $117,000 as a going concern.
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William J. Murdock
Clarence C. Colby
Samson Electric Company
Canton
Dodge
United States
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Murlin
Choice Western
Hery
M. O’keeffe Inc
Switchman
Self
Summer Street
Newt Eng
N. Y
T Wharf
Harvard Club
Canton Electric CO
Jordan Marsh Company
Malacca
Pagice
Colchester
Livingston
Romeo
Everett
New Brighton
Vienna
England
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Austria
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