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...Isaac Burk, the well-known botanical author, has presented the University of Pennsylvania with his large and valuable herbarium...
...death is reported in England of Isaac Todhunter, the author of the celebrated algebra treatise, with which all freshmen are familiar...
...Harvard Law School, since its foundation in 1817 by Isaac Parker, then chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, has continued to increase in the number of students and professors until today it is one of the chief departments of the university and second to no law school in the country in point of excellence in instruction and method. To Nathan Dane, an early resident of Massachusetts. is due the credit of aiding in the erection of the first building for the study of law at Harvard. In October, 1831, he advanced the sum of five thousand dollars...
...These will be divided equally between the sexes. They will be administered by the faculty according to regulations now in process of preparation. In grateful commemoration of the munificent legacy of Mr. Rich, which amounts to nearly $1,000,000, these new foundations will be perpetually known as "the Isaac Rich scholarship...
...students of Boston University had a general jubilee last Friday, the day on which the $2,000,000 bequest of Hon. Isaac Rich came into the possession of the trustees...