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During the recess it was announced that through the generosity of a prominent merchant of Boston, whose name is not made known, a chair of comparative pathology is to be founded at the Medical School. The benefactor advances $100,000 for the endowment of the chair. This will be the first establishment of a professorship of comparative pathology in any American university...
...raise a building fund, a fund for furnishing, and a reserved fund for liabilities. It has been decided that owing to the financial depression it is unwise to take steps toward raising a fund by general subscription just at present, meanwhile an opportunity is offered to some individual benefactor to give the building...
...cost of several sites. After considerable discussion it was decided that, in view of the present financial depression, it would be wise to wait a few months before attempting to raise the necessary two hundred thousand dollars by a general subscription. In the meantime it is possible that some benefactor will be found who may wish to contribute the whole sum, and thus immortalize his name. This has been the fortunate experience of the University of Pennsylvania, which has been recently given an expensive club house...
Some time ago an offer was submitted to the University Corporation from an unknown benefactor to put in a new window in the north end of the transept at Memorial Hall, in memory of those whose names are inscribed on the tablets of the transept. The Corporation accepted this anonymous offer and appointed a committee to arrange the matter. Owing to the death of Mr. Brimmer, the chairman of this committee, to whom the designs were submitted, the work has been somewhat delayed. The window probably will not be completed for at least two years. The scaffolding now up around...
...death of Mr. Martin Brimmer takes from the Corporation one of its most valued members, and from Harvard College an honored son and benefactor. It is an inevitable accompaniment of the large growth of the University that those who are most intimately connected with its administration can be but little known to the students except by reputation. But though Mr. Brimmer's personal acquaintance among the students was necessarily limited, his great service to the University, now sadly brought to mind, makes his loss come to all of us as that of a friend...