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...unrestricted bequest of about $48,000, one-third the residue of his estate. Next to this comes the gift from the Elizabeth Fogg estate, of $10,374 additional, for building and maintaining the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum. Through Alexander Agassiz Esq., $5.000 has been received from Maj. Theodore K. Gibbs, to establish the Virginia Barret Gibbs scholarship fund in connection with the Museum of Comparative Zoology. From Mrs. Henry Draper of New York, $2,500 additional has been received for the account of the Draper Memorial. $2,000 has been given to found the Julius Dexter scholarship. Through Gardner...
...doors are to be opened at 7.30 p. m. and the debate is expected to begin promptly at 8 o'clock. The following gentlemen have been invited to sit on the platform: Ex-Governor John D. Long, Curtis Guild Jr., William Makepeace Towle, Dr. Edward Abbott, J. W. Jewett, Maj. W. W. Kellett, Mayor Matthews, Alfred Hemenway, Hon. John Reed, George L. Von Meyer, Senator Simpkins, President Capen of Tufts, Mayor Alger, and officers of the Cambridge city government. R. R. Upton of Yale will open the debate for the affirmative (Democratic), following by G. P. Costigan...
...would provide homes for millions of settlers. Desirable public lands are nearly gone.- Prof. Hart, in Journal of Economics, Jan., 1887; Maj. Powell, Cong. Record, Sept...
...morrow and Friday occurs the auction sale in Boston of Maj. Ben: Perley Poore's valuable collection of autographs and manuscripts. The collection is very large and there will be two sales each...
...large audience assembled in Sanders last evening to hear Maj-Gen Crook's lecture on our Western Indians. Rev. Edward Everett Hale introduced the speaker, and said that Gen. Crook had been connected with the U. S. Army for many years. Since the civil war he has been stationed in Idaho and has had charge of the Indians in that district. Gen. Crook then said: In former years, treachery has been extremely prevalent among the Indians. It was their mode of warfare to fall upon an unarmed band of men and massacre the entire party. Originally they did this...