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...that there will be others established. There is good authority for the statement that a prominent friend of the university has recently donated 50,000 for the endowment of a professorship of moral philosophy ; and a gentleman prominent in that department has been tendered the position. The additions to Sibley College have been pushed during the summer months, and those at the Cascadilla place begun, but the latter will hardly be finished before winter...
...band graduates in front. Headed by a band of music the alumni to the number of seven hundred marched to Memorial Hall, where the dinner was served. The Rev. John F. Moors invoked a blessing and a psalm was sung under the leadership of the veteran John Langdon Sibley. President Russell of the alumni then began the speaking, and he was followed by Pres. Eliot, Gov. Robinson. '56, Prof. Jebb, Prof. Newcomb, Prof. Child, Judge Holmes, Newcomb, Prof. Child, Judge Holmes, Thomas Cushing, '34, S. A. Eliot, '84, and Col. Henry Lee. The closing ceremony was the singing of "Auld...
...trustees of Cornell University, at their last meeting, have set apart, from the sum given in 1872 by the Hon. Ezra Cornell, John McGraw, Esq., the Hon. Henry W. Sage, the Hon. Hiram Sibley and Andrew D. White, a sum amounting to $155,000 for the establishment of scholarships and fellowships to aid meritorious students, both male and female, in the prosecution of their studies at that university. At the same meeting they also set apart, from the fund contributed by the Hon. Henry W. Sage for the superior education of women, the sum of $50,000 for the establishment...
President White of Cornell University has received a letter from Hiram Sibley, making the following donations to the university: For an additional building for the Sibley Mechanic Art School, $30,000; for increased equipment, $8,000; for an increased endowment for the same department...
...this subject: "While in England, not long ago, I went to the place where Woodbridge labored and died, and from the records and other sources have obtained, I think, about all the facts that are obtainable in regard to Woodbridge. Up to now, save the work of Mr. Sibley, in the history of the first graduates, I know of no biography of Woodbridge, nor does Mr. Sibley. Wood, in the "Athenae," of course treats of him, but in a very limited manner. There is a lamentable ignorance among even Harvard's graduates concerning this their first...