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...involves a far departure from John Harvard's ideal of college training and implies a suggestive concession to utilitarian ideas of education. It is the fatal first step? Will there yet be regular courses in plumbing at Harvard and post graduate instruction in gas-fitting? Will retired bathtub manufacturers endow professorships there and steel-makers and motor car manufacturers found technical schools and establish scholarships in their lines? There are more things in a modern college education than were once dreamed of. New York World...
...meeting of the Corporation held recently the Bayard Cutting Fellowship for 1912-1913 was awarded to A. E. R. Boak 2G., of Vancouver, B. C. In 1910 a number of persons gave jointly the sum of $25,000 to endow a fellowship in memory of the late William Bayard Cutting, Jr., '00, of New York, N. Y. The income is $1,150, and the incumbent is to be appointed by the President and Fellows, on the nomination of the department in which the student is working, or with which he is affiliated...
...bequest of $60,000 by the will of Mrs. William O. Moseley, widow of the late William. Oxnard Moseley '69, of New-buryport. Mrs. Moseley's will was probated on December 22, and at that time the bequest was made public. The money is to be used to endow two scholarships in the Medical School. These scholarships, which will be presented annually, will permit students of slight experience in medicine to enjoy the privileges of foreign medical teaching...
...theatre is once considered on the same level with the university as an institution which aims to develop the more perfect man, the solution of the problem is not so difficult. Mr. MacKaye suggested that the present universities act as trustees to receive private endowments for a new type of theatre. Immediately with the guarantee of such a respected institution, the endowment of a theatre would cease to be precarious. In addition he suggested that the public endow state and city theatres for the public good, to be administered like state universities and city colleges. Thus he believes that...
...will of the late Mrs. Grace M. Kuhn, who died at Lenox, Mass., on October 7, the sum of $175,000 has been bequeathed to the University to endow a new Department of Biological Chemistry. The endowment is made in memory of Mrs. Kuhn's son, who was interested in this particular branch of science, and will be known as the Hamilton Kuhn Professorship...