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Newspaper

Cambridge Sentinel

Location

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 30, 1904

Page

3

Local Brevities Highlight Fires Lectures and Socials

A Cambridge area column notes a Clark street house fire caused by an overheated stove with $3800 in damage. Upcoming events include a Samuel Lover lecture by Michael J. Dwyer, a Margaret Fuller House musicale, and a North Cambridge veteran firemen ball. Also mentioned are bank plans by University Press employees, civic meetings, and school and church notices along with local law and crime items.

Patrick Phalen Clark Street North Cambridge Third Universalist Church

Harvard Funds Show Big Investment Gain and Deficit

Harvard University's treasurer released figures showing July investment at 125,863,121.70 dollars with a gain of 1,748,970.85 from the prior year. Gifts totaled 1,756,418.40 dollars. Investment yield was 4.68 percent, down 0.12 percent from the year before. The university, college and library account ran a deficit, offset by insurance funds. Building costs rose by 16,892.42 dollars due to the new lecture hall and museums. Instructors' salaries rose 48,784.99 dollars, countered by tuition increases of 48,926.47 dollars. Veterinary school wind-down cost 11,161.60 dollars.

Harvard University Harvard University, College and Library Lecure Hall Stillman

Elephants in Burma and Their Unoversight Driven Power

In Burma elephants dominate lumbering tasks acting as both draft animals and load carriers. Elephants in charge, with mahouts guiding them, perform the lifting transporting and precise placement of timber, often outperforming human labor and steam cranes. Stories highlight elephant sagacity in adapting to daily work and delays.

Burma

Perseverance as the hinge of virtue and toil

Carlyle extols perseverance as essential to all virtue. He argues most failures arise not from talent or will but from wavering methods and shifting from goal to goal. He cites the Dutch virtue of perseverance and warns without it virtue is like glittering fairy gold that proves worthless.

Harvard Carlyle

Old Acre Folk at Newtowne hall by 05 class

Tickets appeared for a high school production titled Old Acre Folk in Newtowne hall Se. The 05 class offers reserved seats to E Murray Alexander Ellis James B McBride Stillman C Davis Jr Arthur I Hayden Harold G Russell and Howard Belknap. Cast includes Isabel Leach Edith Lesear Madeline C Clark Mae Arthur Hayden Madeline Clark with mandolin by Mae Murray. Miss Lottie L Stickney oversees ushers. Dancing follows the play and a handsome sum is expected.

Newtowne Hall Isabel Leach Edith Lesear Madeline C. Clark Mae Arthur Hayden Madeline Clark Mae Murray Lottie L. Stickney Madeline ©. Clarke Alexander Ellis Edith Lesseur Howard Belknap Stillman. Davis, Jr Harold G. Russell James McBride Arthur Trayden

The Wrong Boy in the Railway Carriage

A traveler leaves his eight year old son in a corridor train car with strict instructions. The boy leans out a window to reach a telegraph pole as the train speeds along. The father rescues him and discovers the youth was tormenting a different child in the next seat, realizing he disciplined another man’s son.

Fond of long walks and notable walkers cited

The piece praises outdoor walking for its mental and physical benefits, citing Wordsworth Dickens Wilson Sleury Fawcett Iris Southey Mill and Lamb as exemplary long distance walkers. It argues regular tramping brings pleasure and profit, recommending it as a lasting habit. The article ends noting a city committee on police department reorganization, with Capt. Pullen and Deputy Chief Bachelder in attendance and suggesting park police consolidation ideas.

Professor Wilson Christopher North Sleury Fawcett Iris Cambridge Southey John Stuart Mill Charles Lamb Davis Pullen Bachelder Park

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