Harvard Alumni Bulletin Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...of a national university in a country whose institutions are free is perfectly sure to be the spirit of liberty under law. Given that, with wealth enough, and the support and love of its friends, its graduates, and its undergraduates, and you will witness the creation of a national university. You may have many national universities in this broad and rich country. There will be many of national scope and range. The thing for Harvard University to do is to keep in the van of that noble procession. MUSICAL CLUB The Musical Club has elected the following officers: Secretary, H. W. Frost, '14. of Chelsea; treasurer, L. dej. Harvard, '15, of London, England; librarian, W. N. Hewitt. '14, of West Medway. Professor W. R. Spalding, '87, is permanent president, and Dr. A. T. Davison, '06, permanent vice-president of the club. Jaggar, '94, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Director of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, is at present making a prolonged study of this volcano. The proposed model to be made by Mr. Curtis will be twelve feet by eight in size, wiith a scale of 1:1500, on which the figure-of a man would appear about one-tenth of an inch in height. The University Museum already has several models made by Mr. Curtis, including the relief of Greater Boston, which belongs to the Commonwealth, and the reliefs of two coral islands made for Mr. Alexander Agassiz, and under his direction. One of the latter is a model of a typical atoll, the other of the island of Bora Bora, one of the Society Islands near Tahiti. To get data for the latter Mr. Curtis spent two months making surveys, taking photographs of the features of the island from various angles, and making sketches in color. The model is made on an exact scale, vertical as well as horizontal; i...