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...Harvard University Bulletin for May, edited by Mr. Justin Winsor, has appeared. It is of great interest as giving in a compact form information concerning the work of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers. A number of bequests are announced, notably that by Mrs. Ellen Gurney of $75,000 and that by Dr. Asa Gray of the copyrights of his books. Mention is made of the long and useful service of Professor Lovering, whose resignation is to take effect September 1, 1888. Besides the reports the Bulletin contains additions to the Harvard necrology as published in the Quinquennial Catalogue...
...earlier representatives of the historical department at Harvard rather than the courses given by the present generation of teachers. Justice to contemporaries requires at least a brief review of the present condition of the work which, since the retirement of Professor Torrey and the death of his successor, Professor Gurney, in 1886, is left entirely in the hands of younger Harvard. Into better or worthier hands this could not have fallen. For years some of the young professors have been in training for their present responsibilities. Indeed, for a long time before the recent transition was made, the chief burden...
...Song, Mary N. Prescott; 'The Second Son," XII.-XVI. M. O. W. Oliphant and T. B. Aldrich; "Russia in Asia," W. H. Ray; "Lazarus Mart'n, de Cullud Lieyer," William W. Archer; "Via Crucis," Edward Irenaeus Stevens; "Paul Patoff," VIII., IX. F. Marion Crawford; "A Tory Parson," Louise Imogen Gurney; "The Pleasure of the King," Henry Guy Carleton; "Our Hundred Days in Europe." II. Oliver Wendell Holmes; General McClellan...
After referring in appropriate terms to the decease of Prof. E. W. Gurney, a member of the corporation, of Francis E. Parker and H. P. Kidder of the Board of Overseers, and Mr. John L. Sibley, for many years the college librarian, President Eliot refers to the voluntary attendance at prayers and the plans adopted for religious guidance of the students, and says that the success of the new method during the first three months of the current year has surprised those even who advocated it the most strongly. The officers and students of the college, and a large part...
...morning at 50 State Street. President E. Rockwood Hoar presided, and in the absence of Dr. McKenzie, Dr. Samuel Green acted as secretary pro tempore. The Board confirmed the election of Alexander Agassiz as a member of the Corporation to fill the vacancy made by the death of Professor Gurney. The arrangement of the details of the celebration of the coming two hundred and fiftieth anniversary occupied the remainder of the session, lasting two hours and a half...