During the last few years the great growth of Harvard has been making itself manifest in even the smallest branches of the University. The statistics which are published every year bear witness to the unfailing increase in the number of men who choose Harvard as the institution at which to gain their higher education; and the present year especially has seen a tremendous addition to the numbers of the students. Side by side with these statistical evidences of growth have been seen others equally telling. The accommodations of the college have had to be increased to meet the pressure of the ever increasing work which Harvard has to do. New dormitories are built; new athletic buildings and fields are contributed to satisfy the growing requirements; the Scientific School is enlarged; the Law School is crowded; and now the Observatory finds itself forced to provide more spacious quarters.
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Appleton Chapel.
