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...university of $200,000 for the Retiring allowance fund; the granting to Professor James B. Greenough and Professor George L. Goodale of leave of absence for the academic year 1890-91: and resolutions of thanks for gifts of money for various objects from Professor Francis G. Peabody, Mrs. Asa Gray, Edward Russel, Jacob H. Schiff, Henry Villard, I. N. P. Stokes, Carleton Hunneman and others. The treasurer also reported the receipt of $30,000 additional from the trustees of of will of Walter Hasting on account of the building fund for Walter Hastings Hall...
...Yale alumni association of Boston and vicinity held its annual dinner Thursday evening at the Parker house, over one hundred graduates being present. Owing to the illness of President White, Judge Asa French presided, having with him at the principal table Rev. Phillips Brooks, Professor A. M. Wheeler of Yale college, Rev. Dr. Horace Bumstead, of Atlanta university, George A. Adee, and Hon. Henry E. Howland of the New York alumni association...
Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, editor of "Garden and Forest," is editing the miscellaneous scientific papers of Asa Gray. The first volume, which will appear in the spring, will contain the late professor's reviews of works in botany and related subjects between...
...university suffered severely the past year by the deaths of Asa Gray, professor of botany and a man of worldwide reputation; of Earnest Young, recently appointed professor of history, and of Robert Dickson Smith and James Freeman Clarke, members of the board of overseers...
...willing students, must produce marked effects on character. The most prominent of these are: (1) the substitution of enthusiasm for indifference; (2) a self-respecting humility conjoined with charitableness; (3) an increase of sincerity. These effects were illustrated by the lives of Louis Agassiz, Jeffries Whyman, and Asa Gray. What can be the possible dangers in a method which possesses such marked advantages over the methods which it has displaced? Is it not likely that the very extreme specialization may lead to too contrasted views in regard to other fields of inquiry than the one in which the student...