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...with what they should do, and much as we may regret it, moral ideas do not depend on fact but on what should be. So the first service of ethics is the enlarging of our philosophy. Ethics cannot take the place of all philosophy but it can endow us with the great gift of moral truth...
Doane College, at Crete, Neb., has received a bequest of $13,000 from the estate of David Whitcomb, of Worcester, Mass., and the citizens of Crete have contributed a fund of $15,000 to endow a chair of natural science...
...Trumbull of Baltimore, Md., have given $20,000 to Johns Hopkins University to endow a memorial series of lectures on poetry...
...hundred thousand dollars is being raised to endow a chair of Protection in Yale, to combat the Free Trade theories advanced by Professor Sumner...
Through the generosity of Dr. Alvan Talcott, of Guilford, Yale University has just been given the sum of $25,000, which the donor stipulates shall be used to endow a professorship of Greek...