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...with a fund of $9,500, $8,000 of which was subscribed by Henry Bromfield Rogers '22. At first the structure was adequate to the needs of the College, but soon the small dimensions, 74 feet wide by 40 feet high, proved insufficient, until in 1878, when Augustus Hemenway '75, of Boston, gave $100,000 for the erection of a new University gymnasium. The architects were Messrs. Peabody and Stearns, of Boston, and the contractors, Norcross Bros., of Worcester. The building was opened in 1879 and was then by far the largest, best equipped, and most handsome college gymnasium...
...generosity of Mr. Augustus Hemenway '75, a new case has been recently installed, which relieves the congestion of the halls, and provides room for part of the North American collection. The arrangement was further amplified by the substitution of more important objects recently in storage, for those of less importance to the exhibit. In the anthropological section, the divisions have been systematized for the convenience of comparative racial study...
Century--"Adventures on the Ragged Edge," No. I, by J. Corbin '92; "The Later Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens," by H. Saint-Gaudens '03; "The Sun Dominant," by P. Lowell '76; "The Red City," No. III, by S. W. Mitchell...
...Henry Augustus Coit, of Concord, N. H., three, prepared for College at St. Paul's School, where he rowed for two years on the school crew. He is 19 years old, weighs 165 pounds, and is 6 feet, 1 inch in height...
DEAR SIRS:--It is my wish to endow the Professorship of Otology in the Medical School of Harvard College in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, the Professorship to bear the name of "Walter Augustus Lecompte," this sum to be kept as a separate fund under the name given, and any surplus of income not needed to pay the salary of the incumbent to be devoted to defraying the expenses of the Department of Otology in the Medical School of Harvard College. Yours truly, FRANCIS D. LECOMITE...