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...surplus of $652.22, and a surplus for the Lawrence Scientific school. Among the gifts received during the year there were the following which were over $1000: George B. Dorr estate, $4785.89; Robert Treat Paine estate, $1500; Francis E. Parker estate, $91,504.99; Miss Anna C. Lowell, toward the fund for a botanic garden, $1000; Henry Gassett estate, for sustaining annual dinner of the class of 1834, $1000; Robert Treat Paine, to found the Robert Treat Paine fellowship of social science, $10,000; Uriah A. Boyden estate, $237,387.78; from an anonymous friend, per Mr. Agassiz, $2500; Henry...
Every American ought to feel proud of the eminent results attained by this institution, which is supported wholly by Americans. In order to get the fund of $100,000, the income whereof is to pay the salary of a permanent director for the school, great efforts are being made this winter. Dr. Charles Waldstein, whom we had the privilege of hearing in Cambridge last year, has been chosen as the first permanent director...
...college feel a sufficient interest in this school, which redounds so greatly to America's intellectual glory, as to contribute something toward this fund, the committee who have the matter in hand would be very much gratified...
...held Thursday, Dec: 22, 1887. The question of having a Memorial was brought forward, and in the discussion it was suggested that the class should found an annual prize for a junior oratorical contest. It was proposed to subscribe $500 this year, and, by annual subscriptions, to increase the fund to $1,000. The matter was laid on the table...
...collection, just voted as a gift to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts by the Egypt Exploration Fund of London includes several large pieces from Rubastis and Nebeskeh. The temple at Rubastis, according to Herodotus, was the most beautiful in Egypt...