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...will of Paul Tulare of Princeton, N. J., bequeaths two million dollars to the city of New Orleans, to erect and endow a college for the education of the white young men of that city in language, literature, science...
...MILLS has given $75,000 to the University of California, to endow a chair of Moral and Mental Philosophy. Mr. Mills is probably of the opinion that California needs some instruction in this direction...
With the Hope that Harvard will endow a Professorship of Hygiene...
...proposed to raise among the pupils and friends of the late Rev. Dr. James Walker, President of Harvard University, the sum of from five thousand to ten thousand dollars to endow a scholarship in that University, and to provide a suitable memorial of him in Memorial Hall. Considerable subscriptions have already been made to the fund. Mr. John A. Lowell, of Boston, heads the committee, and has such associates as Charles W. Eliot, Phillips Brooks, Francis E. Parker, and Henry W. Foote. The New York members of the committee are Samuel Osgood, Joseph H. Choate, and James C. Custer...
...John Welsh, president of the Centennial Board of Finance, has turned over the testimonial fund of $50,000, with which he was honored, to the University of Pennsylvania, to endow a "John Welsh Centennial Professorship...