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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York Sun has lately printed an interesting scrap of gossip about a Harvard man. "The Messrs. Howe and Co. of London, found on a book stall an American book of anonymous verses, which they reprinted under the title 'Pirated Poems.' The English reprint has run into the twelfth thousand, and the publishers express a desire to become acquainted with the author and to share with him the profits arising from the sale of the book. The poems are witty, philosophical, graceful, and altogether delightful. We congratulate the Messrs. Howe and Co. upon their good taste," continues...
Fifty-four scholarships are available this year, amounting in the aggregate to nearly five thousand dollars. In addition to this sum as much as thirty-six hundred dollars is available to cover the expense of tuition remained. During the past year over nine thousand dollars was given to deserving students, and the expense of maintaining the school in excess of the receipts for tuition amounted to thirteen thousand dollars. This sum was borne by the income from the general funds of the academy...
...disks of glass for the projected Bruce photographic telescope have not yet been received from France, but the disk for the prism has been received and seems to be unusually free from defects. The important gift by Miss Bruce of six thousand dollars, to be distributed among astronomers of all nations should here be mentioned. It affords an example of using money so as to secure the greatest scientific return, which, it is hoped, will find many imitators...
There are over six thousand alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy...
Nearly thirteen thousand volumes have been offered already to the University of Toronto to replace the library recently destroyed by fire...