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Boston University has just received $40, 000 from the Hon. Alden Speare to endow a professorship in the college of Liberal Arts...
Hamline University, in Minnesota, which recently received $35,000 from Mr. Joseph Dean' has received an additional gift of $30,000, from Rev. J. F. Chaffee, D. D., of Minneapolis, to endow a chair of Mental Science...
...other way which is almost beyond hoping for is that some graduate will leave money enough to endow a professorship of athletic studies. In my opinion such a professorship would be of more advantage to Harvard than a professorship of Hebrew or Semitic languages but I fear there is no one among the number of those graduates who wish to do something for their Alma Mater who goes with me. If the salary of such a trainer as is wanted could be raised by subscription for a couple of years, I think it very likely that the receipts from...
...they, too, have their place to fill in the world; and if they work faithfully at school to fit themselves to fill it, it is unjust and cruel to turn them out into it at the beginning of their career with a sense of defeat because Nature did not endow them as highly as a few of their brethren. The Tribune has called the attention of colleges and teachers to this increasing and fatal error. It only echoes the opinion of parents everywhere. They see, if teachers do not, that the real object of education in American colleges should...
...generous friends of the college is the seeming apathy of the graduates of Princeton themselves, of whom it has been said that they make no effort whatever to exhibit their faith in the institution by pecuniary aid. There is reason to believe that this impression once removed by the endowment of one chair by the alumni, the funds to endow the other two chairs ($120,000 additional) will be forthcoming without delay...