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...centre of the roof above the reading room. In accordance with the terms of the gift, Yale is bound to erect two other similar structures, and the college ought to well provided with libraries when all are completed. The three buildings will together have a capacity of nearly one million volumes...
...account of delay in the delivery of some of the material and partly owing to the severity of the weather, but it is now being pushed with activity. About one-third has been roofed, and out of 2,000,000 bricks to be used in its construction over a million and a half have been laid...
...over flowing, last evening, with an audience that had assembled to hear one of the most remarkable addresses that has been heard for a long while at Harvard. Professor Norton said that the United States presents a spectacle never before seen in the history of the world-of sixty million people at peace and without fear. He spoke of the unparalleled growth in wealth and material resources which has marked this century of American life. To get wealth, much that is equally valuable and far more noble has been sacrificed. Fame, renown and honor have become weaker motives than they...
...Furber, Jr., a young man yet under 20 years of age, is preparing to found a great university in Chicago, after that of Heidelberg. He will devote one million dollars as an inducement for other citizens to join in the movement.- Princetonian...
...they were formerly. The year 1886-87 will be memorable for the successful celebration in November, 1886, of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College. It will also be remembered as the first year in which the University received gifts to the amount of more than a million of dollars...