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GRADUATES FAVOR CHAPEL AS FINEST WAR MEMORIAL

Committee Deplores Condition of Boylston--Many Other Improvements Urged

Reports submitted by other committees of the Associated Harvard Clubs and published in the current issue of the University Alumni Bulletin recommended that a scholarship be established at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, which was John Harvard's almamater, in memory of Lionel de Jersey '15, who was killed in action at Arras in 1917 while serving as first lieutenant and acting captain in the Grenadier Guards: that the committee which is raising $250,000 to endow five professorships at Berea College, Kentucky, in memory of Professor N. S. Shaler '62, the great Harvard geologist, be continued for another year to go on with the campaign, which has already secured more than $50,000; and that the Associated Harvard Clubs establish an employment service with a central clearing house in New York.

The suggestion of a scholarship, or "studentship", at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to "enable a properly qualified graduate of Harvard College to enjoy for one year or more the advantages of residence there" is made by a large committee headed by E. H. Wells, '97, of New York City. Their report quotes from a letter from Dr. Peter Giles, master of Emmanuel College, approving the plan and offering that the holder of the "studentship" should receive his rooms and commons free.

Wants Overseers More Representative

The chairman of the committee on service to the University, E. M. Grossman '96, of Saint Louis, in a report prepared too late for discussion with other members of the committee, recommends "that a special committee be appointed to observe and study methods of nomination and election of Overseers and to report such changes and improvements as will tend to give Overseers a more truly representative character". Eight members of the committee, in addition to the chairman, approved the report; from ten more to whom the report was submitted no replies were received. Two members the ground that they consider the present method satisfactory, and a third adds his name with the reservation that he believes the present method of nominating Overseers by committee and by petition "has always given the voting body ample opportunity to make excellent suggestions", but that he sees no harm in "investigating the general subject to ascertain if, by ingenuity, an even better plan may be devised."

Wants Medical School Dormitory

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The committee on dormitory requirements and relations of the graduate schools, headed by Malcolm Donald '99, of Boston, states that "a dormitory for the Medical School, including a dining hall, additional dormitories for the Law School, and a dormitory or dormitories for the Business School are, in our opinion, required at the present time".

L. P. Marvin '98, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, records in his report "steps which, it is hoped, will be fruitful in the development of the team-play and unity of the University family". The Board of Overseers, he says, has established a standing committee on alumni relations, and the Corporation, on recommendation of the Board, is to appoint a Secretary for Alumni Relations. The committee on alumni relations now consists of J. D. Greene '96, E. C. Felton '79, and Henry James '99, representing the Board of Overseers, and President Lowell, President Robert Grant of the Alumni Association, and President Marvin of the Associated Harvard Clubs, ex-officio.

Harvard Clubs Organized Abroad

There are now 112 Harvard Clubs which belong to the Associated Harvard Clubs, President Marvin reports. Of these, 99 are in the United States, 3 in Canada, and 10 in foreign countries or insular possessions. The Harvard Club of Berlin has been reorganized under Ambassador A. B. Houghton '86; Ambassador R. W. Child '03, is president of the Harvard Club of Rome; and the newly-formed Harvard Club of Paris has completed a fund of 25,000 francs to send a French boy to Harvard, the first 1000 francs having been contributed by Ambassador Herrick

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