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...blessings with which heaven may endow a community, there is none greater than the habitual presence in it of a good and pleasant man or woman, and this blessing is immeasurably enhanced when to goodness and pleasantness is added the gift of genius which makes its possessor a special object of admiration and of general interest; and if this genius finds its expression in verse addressed not only to the comparative few of highly cultivated intelligence, but through its breadth of sympathy and through its musical expression of simple elementary moral sentiments appealing to the vast multitude of common...
...Grenfell's Hospital in Labrador--at that time $386--further subscriptions have been received bringing the total to $636. The total subscription has come about equally from undergraduates and from graduates and instructors. The amount so far subscribed is a little over half the amount necessary to endow the bed. Very truly yours, W. C. SABINE...
Please permit me to announce through the CRIMSON that the total subscriptions toward the Harvard cot in one of Dr. Grenfell's hospitals in Labrador is $386. The amount necessary to entirely endow a cot is $1200, but a letter received from Dr. Grenfell announces his intention to deposit this subscription with Brown Brothers of London, as a fund to be devoted to that purpose as far as it will...
...reported that by the will of Mary Putnam Ropes of Salem, the University will receive a bequest of Boston and Maine railroad common stock to endow the Nathaniel Ropes Professorship of Political Economy. The surplus, if any, is to go to the Peabody Museum. A second bequest from the same source of one-half the interest of an annuity bend of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, is to establish the Nathaniel Ropes; Jr., fund, the purpose of which is not stated. At present it is impossible to estimate the value of these bequests...
...property valued at about $140,000. The bequests provide that part of the income from the money shall be used for the benefit of such decendants of David and Beulah Ellis, and John and Hannah Ellis as may be students in Harvard College, while the residue shall go to endow three professorships and pay general expenses in the Medical Department...