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...gift of four hundred pounds, decreed by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was augmented by more than double that amount through the will of John Harvard, a non-conforming clergyman of England, who died the following year. In consequence of this large bequest, the College was immediately opened at Cambridge (then Newton), and the name of Harvard bestowed upon...
...Anonymous, (for the general use of the College), 200.00 Anonymous, (for use of Betanic Garden), 320.00 Henry C. Pierce, (towards the Surgical Laboratory Fund, David P. Kimball, 1,000.00 Thornton K. Lathrop, (for purchase of a collection of prize poems), 82.10 Andrew Ingraham, 5.00 Alexander Wheelock Thayer,(Bequest), 7.758.30 Charles S. Minot (towards a salary in the Medical School), 200.00 Mrs. Emil C. Hammer, (towards the purchase of Scandinavian books and a lecture on Scandinavian subjects), 500.00 H. H. Hunnewell, (for use at Botanic Garden), 2,000.00 Deutscher Verein (for purchase of books for the German Department), 50.00 George...
...will of the late Mr. Henry Villard of New York includes a bequest of $50,000 to Harvard College followed by the words, "gratefully remembering that my two sons and six nephews were educated at that institution." The gift is unrestricted. Among other bequests is one of $50,000 to Columbia University...
...Francis street. Here, as funds are collected, the various buildings will be erected and the Medical, Dental and Veterinary Schools will each have its own quarters, with laboratories and a hospital. An appropriation for a School of Comparative Medicine has already been made from the H. L. Pierce bequest...
...most significant is "An Opportunity," by W. G. Brown '91, a very readable plea for a higher form of teaching, to be provided by the future occupant of the recently founded Dorman B. Eaton Professorship of Government. The writer points out that the terms of Mr. Eaton's bequest provide not merely for a new chair, but for a new sort of chair. The broader, less academic, more human teaching that Mr. Eaton hoped for will be an innovation, and if the right man be found, will be a great step in advance. The other special articles are sufficiently explained...