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...Paine estate, $1500; Francis E. Parker estate, $91,504.99; Miss Anna C. Lowell, toward the fund for a botanic garden, $1000; Henry Gassett estate, for sustaining annual dinner of the class of 1834, $1000; Robert Treat Paine, to found the Robert Treat Paine fellowship of social science, $10,000; Uriah A. Boyden estate, $237,387.78; from an anonymous friend, per Mr. Agassiz, $2500; Henry Lee, $1500 for the salary of an instructor in political economy; Mrs. Henry Draper of New York, $4500 for prosecuting researches in stellar photography; Robert Waterston, $1000 for the library; Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture...
...will of the late Uriah A. Boyden, property, the present value of which exceeds $230,000, was left in trust for the purpose of astronomical research "at such an elevation as to be free, so far as practicable, from the impediments to accurate observations which occur in the observatories now existing, owing to atmospheric influences...
...still it must be esteemed a great and special compliment to the University that the management of a large bequest, devoted to astronomical research, should be entrusted to the Harvard observatory. Yet it is fitting that this magnificent sum of $230,000, bequeathed by the late Uriah A. Boyden, should be given over by the trustees to the care of the Harvard observatory. For where in this country can be found an astronomical observatory so well equipped in every particular, or scientists of greater ability and of higher reputation? Indeed, while we think with pride of the great names...
...such cases the college advances the necessary funds for the temporary support of the department. This was the case with the Observatory, which did not repay the outlay made upon it at first, although this has since been made up by handsome endowments, especially the endowment made by Uriah Boyden...
...Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class of 1651 was in contemporaneous renown far above all other verse writers." He had "the genius of a true poet, his imagination had an epic strength, it was piercing, creative." Two other poets, worse rhymers, though greater men than Wigglesworth were John Rogers and Uriah Oakes ; both of the class of 1649. Both later became presidents of the college...