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...proceeds will go to the Bazaar, now being held in the Grand Central Palace, New York, which is raising funds for the war relief of the Allies. The entire country is participating, and it is expected that more than a million dollars will be raised. Besides naming a planet for a college, voting is being held to determine the name of what city will be given to another of Professor Metcalfe's planets, while shares are being sold for the privilege of naming a third heavenly body as the winner may decide...
...Bazaar, which will be held at the Grand Central Palace, is expected to raise over a million dollars for war relief in the Allied nations, and the whole country is participating. Another contest will be held to determine the name of what city will be given to one of the planets and the selling of shares for the privilege of naming one of them as the winner chooses...
...describing the actual work of the Y. M. C. A. among the soldiers, Mr. Carter emphasized the importance of letter writing, between one and two million sheets of writing paper being distributed among the men every day. Nor is paper alone supplied. Many of the Indian troops are illiterate and people to write letters in all Indian dialects have been provided. Nor is the work alone among the men on the firing line. There are over 5,000,000 men in hospitals today. These men sleep but little and the association has done great things in ministering to their wants...
...Albert Matthews '82 read from a recent president's report announcing gifts to the University of more than two and a half million dollars and then turned to a similar document of 250 years ago in which it was announced that the College would purchase six leather chairs, provided the treasury could afford it. Mr. Matthews then told of the real start of the University, when John Harvard's bequest of $3,900 and his library enabled the institution to get on its feet. Although in those days boys as young as twelve often came to college, the entrance requirements...
...bequest of more than one million dollars has been made to Yale University by Justus S. Hotchkiss of New Haven. Yale is made the legatee of the donator's estate. The fund which goes to the university will be divided into three equal parts, each of which will be given to one of the three departments of the University. In addition, $50,000 is left as a church fund. The late Mr. Hotchkiss was a rubber merchant...