Word: mr
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...recent meeting of the Corporation the Treasurer reported the receipt, through Mr. Charles C. Jackson, Treasurer of the John Homans Memorial Fund, of $50,000 to establish the John Homans Professorship in Surgery, and of an additional sum for the erection of a tablet in one of the Medical School Buildings. The offer of this gift was accepted at a meeting of the Corporation last spring...
Three other gifts and bequests were also reported at the same meeting: A gift of $10,000 from Mr. J. H. Schiff for the Semitic Museum, a bequest of $2,000 from the late E. A. W. Harlow '41 and a gift of $1,200 from the Harvard Medical Alumni Association...
...Mr. M. C. Lefferts, of New York, has presented to the College Library the diploma given to Washington Irving as a doctor of laws, at the Commencement of 1832. It bears the signature of Josiah Quincy as President, and, as usual, contains a brief characterization which may be freely translated as follows: "Scholar and true gentleman; skilful portrayer of lands and customs, delighting his readers with the delicacy of his wit or stirring them with the splendor of his diction; who by his many and admirably finished works has won fame for himself and for his country." The diploma...
...Chinese and Japanese students in the University will be given by the Phillips Brooks House Association in the parlor of Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. President Eliot, other officers of the University, and specially invited undergraduates will be present. Among the guests will be Mr. E. B. Drew '63, who has lately been a commissioner of customs in China. J. D. White '07 will preside, and a few informal speeches will be made. Later light refreshments will be served...
SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Some Aspects of the Early Railway Era in Great Britain." Mr. William Jackman. University...