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Died. Augustus Hemenway, 77, one-time (1890-91) member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Harvard overseer and donor of Harvard's Hemenway gymnasium; in Readville, Mass...
...bequest climaxes a series of gifts to the University from the donor who served at one time on the Board of Overseers. The most outstanding of these was the Hemenway gymnasium which was presented to the University in 1879 and enlarged at the double expense...
Ledoux, who studied under Woodberry at Columbia, as did the donor of the room, has written a book on Japan, and in addition to his interest in poetry is prominent as a geologist. His lecture was given under the Morris Gray fund, being the last of the year's talks to be given in that connection. The speaker went on to illustrate the enthusiasm with which Woodberry inspired his pupils, and the devotion with which he followed their literary careers, by reading several of the letters which the well-known poet and critic wrote to young men on the threshold...
Harvard lost one of its most conspicuous benefactors with the death yesterday at his home in Readville of Augustus Hemenway '79, donor of the gymnasium which bears his name. Mr. Hemenway, who was born in Boston in 1853, made the gift on his graduation; the gymnasium, completed in 1875 and greatly enlarged by the donor in 1895, replaced the small, octagonal Rogers Building as an indoor athletic center, and was considered at the time the finest of its kind in the world...
...many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West. There are six rooms for permanent and loan exhibitions of contemporary works. U. S. ship models, silver, glass, etchings and prints. In the basement are studios, work rooms, a library.* Andover chooses to call the donor of its gallery "anonymous." But most people are sure it was given by Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran, patron and alumnus of Andover and Yale. Headed by Architect Charles Adams Platt who designed the building, the Art Committee includes Mr. Cochran and his good friend Mrs. Cornelius Newton (Zaidee Cobb) Bliss. Because...