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...vigorous campaign was entered upon in Boston and Vicinity, and the response was generous. But as July 1 drew near there was still a lack of several thousand dollars. Mr. Schiff was informed of the situation, but instead of consenting to an extension of the time, he offered to increase his gift to $50,000 provided the other subscribers would allow their contributions to "go to the fund from which purchases for the collection are being made." This offer was accepted without dissent, and the University will accordingly have the desired Semitic Building in addition to $19,240 for increasing...
...Harriet L. Hemenway, wife of Augustus Hemenway, who gave the Harvard Gymnasium, is the donor of the $50,000 for the Radcliffe Gymnasium which is now being built on Mason street. Miss Marian Hovey has also given more than the needed money for apparatus, and has allotted several thousand dollars of the money left at her disposal by Mrs. Mary Hemenway, mother of Augustus Hemenway, for the swimming tank in the gymnasium. The surplus will be held as a fund for obtaining other apparatus in the future...
...gift has been received by the Herbarium this year in the collection of autographs of botanists, given by Mrs. Asa Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist and the founder...
...University has been enlarged by the addition of two new colleges-the College of Medicine to be erected in New York City, and the New York State College of Forestry at Ithaca. The College of Forestry is the first in the county. The forest tract will consist ot thirty thousand acres, to be purchased in the Adirondacks...
...directors of the Harvard Co-operative Society held their last meeting for the current academic year. It was found that the sales both in Cambridge and in Boston have been larger than in 1896-97. The increase in the retail sales of the Cambridge department is about five thousand dollars, and the increase in the sales of the branch at the Medical School is about the same...