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...Scholarship,' the interest of which shall go to help worthy and needy students of said College, preference being given to any collateral heirs of this testator, in such manner as the College trustees may prescribe, it being made to appear that this endowment is a memorial to both my father and my mother, . . . and that it is the joint gift of myself and my twin brother, Frederick Pitkin Fisher, both of the Class...
From the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Gay, of Boston, through her sons, Frederick Lewis Gay '78, and Ernest Lewis Gay '97, the Library has lately received a valuable and interesting addition of books. Most of the books came from the library of Mrs. Gay's father, Winslow Lewis, of the Class of 1819, M.D. 1822. Dr. Lewis was a well-known physician of Boston, and a member of the Board of Overseers from 1856 to 1868. The collection is a general one, but contains many works on Italian history and travels, including a number of valuable folio volumes...
...setting for the first act is in a Swiss village. The story is of a pretty New York heiress, whose father is determined that she shall marry a title. Marjorie Grumble is engaged to Philip Hathaway, a college man; but old Mr. Grumble objects very seriously to the match because he wishes his daughter to marry a man with a title. He accordingly whisks her off to Europe, with her Aunt Maria and a colored maid. They are followed by Hathaway and two of his college friends, Billie Burt and Bertie Bill, disguised as wandering minstrels. Hathaway and his friends...
...Harvard Theological Review was issued last week, and the CRIMSON will doubtless take pleasure in according to the Review a hearty welcome. This Review has been partially endowed by the bequest of the late Miss Mildred Everett, made in order to carry out a plan suggested by her father, Charles Carrol Everett, deeply respected and widely influential as scholar and teacher in Harvard University for more than thirty years. In advance of his generation, and through his wide survey of the spiritual life of mankind, Professor Everett recognized that religion has been man's supreme interest. He saw, too, that...
Seventy-five years ago, the "dignity of history" necessitated the portrayal of Washington as a man of frigid formality; nowadays, popularizers seek to strip the Father of his Country and show that he possessed many of the worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these things. He has given us a life-like representation of Washington, setting forth the kindliness of his character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human...