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...College Yard as can be given to it will not hold long all the books belonging to the general library of the University. The President thinks the best solution of this difficulty is to plan not to keep in the central building a stock of more than about a million volumes; and have other places of storage for the least useful volumes. If the idea of a limited library could once be accepted, the classification of books on the shelves could be made reasonably permanent, and many sources of waste or fruitless expense dried...
...will of Gordon McKay, who died last month in Newport, R. I., the University will receive within a few years, one million dollars, and later the whole estate which may amount to several millions...
...filed yesterday, the University is to receive from the estate eighty per cent of the balance of the net annual income, after certain annuities amounting to about $50,000 have been paid. This eighty per cent, however, will not be given to the Corporation until the sum of one million dollars has been accumulated. But after this sum has been paid over, the eighty per cent will be paid annually...
...estimated that it will take from five to ten years for the eighty per cent of the net income, which is at present the share of the University, to accumulate to the sum of a million dollars. It will therefore be some time before the University receives anything. Eventually, however, a very large sum will be turned over to the Corporation...
...Thomas Jays of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, delivered a short address before the St. Paul's Society in Phillips Brooks House, last night on his work among the natives of West Africa. The tribe among which he has been working is composed of fifteen million savages who have made practically no advance in civilization. Only six missionaries are now trying to teach the tribe and there is a great opportunity for further mission work among them...