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GENTLEMEN:--We take great pleasure in forwarding the enclosed letter just received from Mrs. C.P. Huntington, offering $250,000 for the erection of a building to be called, in memory of her late husband, The Collis P. Huntington Laboratory of Pathology and Bacteriology. This generous gift, taken in connection with previous subscriptions already reported, more than completes the sum of $765,000 required to secure Mr. J.D. Rockefeller's gift of $1,000,000 for the enlargement and endowment of the Harvard Medical School and thus insures the realization of our great project...
Professor Francke, who is now in Europe on leave of absence, has received a letter from the United States Minister at Berne, announcing that the Harvard Germanic Museum is to be given plaster casts of representative Swiss sculptures, copies of which are now being prepared at the National Museum, Zurick. These casts will be the gift of the Swiss federal council, and should make a valuable addition to the collection already contributed by Emperor William...
...letter has been received from Oxford accepting the challenge for a cable chess match extended to Oxford and Cambridge by Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton...
...meeting of the Weld Boat Club last night the Constitution was revised, the principal amendment being the removal of the article which created the governing board of undergraduates, this article having been a dead-letter for several years. Owing to the resignation of W. M. Welch '02 from the presidency of the club, the following new set of officers was elected for the rest of this year: President, L. B. Wehle '02; vice-president, S. H. Wolcott '03; secretary, H. Minturn...
President Eliot has received a letter of which the following is an extract...