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