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...business meeting of the Harvard Memorial Society was held in 10 Holworthy last evening, Dr. Justin Winsor presiding. Designs were submitted from different companies for the various tablets which the society expects to erect, and a sum of money was appropriated for the erection of the first tablet. These tablets are to be erected on Massachusetts Hall, two bearing the names of twenty-two distinguished graduates who roomed in the building and the third giving the important dates in its history. The first to be erected will be one of those bearing the names of graduates. The inscriptions...
...trustees of the University of Virginia propose to erect four new buildings in place of those recently burned. There will be an academical building, to cost $90,000; a physical laboratory, costing $30,000; a building for the law school, costing $20,000; and a new rotunda, to cost...
...announced in the CRIMSON a few days ago that a Masonic university would soon be established in Pennsylvania. Now it is announced that W. K. Vanderbilt has offered in behalf of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway to erect a $15,000 station, a $50,000 hotel, and to donate $50,000 for college buildings, in case the University is established at Beaver...
...recent corporation meeting it was decided to erect a statue of President Woolsey, by both university funds and subscription...
Among other memorials which it is the intention of the society to erect in the course of time are a monument or marble block on the spot in front of Austin Hall where President Langdon prayed for Prescott and his men before they set out for Bunker Hill; a memorial tablet on Wadsworth House; a properly inscribed granite block on the site near Dane Hall, of the old church where Washington, Andrew Jackson and many other famous men were received; an inscription explaining the significance of the Liberty Tree; and a tablet marking the spot where the first Harvard...