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Harvard received as endowments during 1887-88 $250,000 for a dormitory from the estate of Walter Hastings; about $170,000 for the furtherance of history, political science, and literature, from the will of Ellen Gurney; and two wholly unrestricted gifts $22,000 from John Cowdin and $30,000 from William Perkins. In addition to these, H. R. A. Carey, Sp. '89, gave $25,000 for the building of five courts particularly for the use of the base-ball nine; and the class of 1856 $6,000 as a permanent fund for the publication in serial form of undergraduate...
...those attending the vesper service. After the first hymn, Dr. McKenzie offered prayer, after which he led in the responsive reading of the 91st Psalm. Dr. Francis G. Peabody preached a short sermon, basing his remarks upon the 19th and 20th verses of the twenty-first chapter of John, Jesus' seeming rebuke to Peter for his hesitation. Peter's hesitation and apparent wish to yield to another the responsibility of the call "Follow Me" probably arose from a sense of his own intellectual and morality incapacity. Thus it is with us. When we are called to the performance of some...
...good representative team in the field this season. Wesleyan has never been active in this branch of athletics, but a new are appears to have dawned. The gymnasium is to be enlarged 75 feet, the space to be devoted to a cage for the practice of the nine. John Morrill of the Boston nine has been offered the position of coach, but it is offered the position of coach, but it is doubtful if he accepts...
...Wellesley Courant speaks in a recent issue of "St. John's Hopkins" University...
Last evening a very large number of people attended the service at Appleton Chapel. Rev. President Hyde of Bowdoin College was the preacher. He based his discourse upon the text, "Except man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God " (St. John iii: 3). Man cannot experience more than he is. We cannot feel the blessings of God and the joy of His presence in our lives unless we, in whatever walks of life we be, lay aside selfish aims and devote ourselves to His glorification by making every work a deed of love...