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...acquiring an intimate knowledge of the land. He is thoroughly conversant with both the inhabited regions of the East and the wastes of desert and jungle. In exterminating the lions and tigers that infest many of the Asiatic and African villages, Dr. Smith has frequently been a great benefactor to the natives...
Another gift to the University, of $100,000, from an anonymous benefactor has been announced for the endowment of the Department of the Ethics of Social Questions, on the condition that it shall be named the Francis Greenwood Peabody Endowment Fund. The significance of the gift is that it ensures the permanence of the courses of instruction in social and economic questions from the standpoint of ethics, the object for which Professor Peabody has made such memorable efforts during his professorship in the University...
...Perhaps some of you will do us the favor to write a novel in which that scene shall be the best scene, and these gentlemen shall quote some of their best verses. Our benefactor was a favorite of Cromwell's. We know that Cromwell loved New England and New Englanders...
...library is using as an autograph book for the names of distinguished visitors a handsomely bound volume which was sent over from England in 1765 by Thomas Hollis, a liberal benefactor of the University in the eighteenth century. On the first page he wrote this inscription: "This book was bound long since to serve a noble purpose. It may still serve some noble purpose in Cambridge in New England." For over a hundred and thirty-five years the volume has remained in the library unused, but henceforth it is to be kept for the signatures of visitors. The first signatures...
...above the gate, the Harvard shield in its proper colors. The tower, being the distinguishing feature in the Higginson coat-of-arms, is most appropriate for the seal of the Union. It was the common practice for a college or other endowed institution to adopt the arms of its benefactor. Thus the lion rampant in the seal of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, was borrowed from the coat-of arms of Mildmay, who founded that college; King's College adopted the royal device, and so on. In our case, the single-towered castle is both appropriate and decorative; it is full...