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Another gift to the University, of $100,000, from an anonymous benefactor has been announced for the endowment of the Department of the Ethics of Social Questions, on the condition that it shall be named the Francis Greenwood Peabody Endowment Fund. The significance of the gift is that it ensures the permanence of the courses of instruction in social and economic questions from the standpoint of ethics, the object for which Professor Peabody has made such memorable efforts during his professorship in the University...
...collected for the class crew, has been received, raising the total sum to about $1,700. The minimum cost of the crew's trip and three weeks' stay at New London is about $2,700. Members of the class are urged to send more contributions to the fund. Money should be sent to G. A. Smith, Randolph 6, or left at the office of the Athletic Association...
...gift of $10,000 had been received from a Harvard graduate, whose name is withheld, for the purpose of increasing the good feeling between Yale and Harvard. The gift, which it was provided might be disposed of at the discretion of the Yale Corporation, will be used as a fund for the purpose of establishing a series of lectures to be delivered by Harvard men. President Eliot has accepted the invitation to be the first speaker, and he will deliver a lecture next November, the subject and final date to be announced later...
...Thursday evening last, at Shady Hill, Professor Charles Eliot Norton was informally presented with the following dedication of a book-fund for the College Library which has been raised in his honor...
...collected, about $24,000, provides for the purchase of Professor Norton's valuable private collection of books, and for a fund the income of which shall be devoted each year to the purchase of books for the College Library to be connected with Professor Norton's name and memory. Professor Norton will himself indicate the kind of books for which the income will be used...