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...conditional bequest to the Divinity School of Dr. Abbot's library, if accepted, will cause an outlay of many thousand dollars. This, however, should not influence those who have charge of the matter. The divinity School would receive great benefit from the donation. But we cannot feel that the library of the Divinity School should take precedence over the University library. For years the undergraduates have protested against the inefficiency of the management of the University library to meet the needs of the college. The invariable answer has been that the college authorities were unable to accede to the requests...
...need of a fund for a Divinity School library building is made more pressing than ever by the bequest of the late Dr. Ezra Abbot. The library for 4,000 volumes, which will thus come to the school, cannot be received until some fireproof building is provided. Such a building will also be very convenient for the storage of the present library of the school. Fifteen or twenty thousand dollars is considered a sufficient sum for a small library building, which could be erected in the vicinity of the school. This would be very convenient for the members...
...literati is looking out for something to occupy his talents over, we would suggest to him that he write for the prize which the Russian Academy offers for the best essay on the life and reign of Alexander I. The minister of Alexander I. left a bequest of 50,000 roubles in charge of the Academy, with the conditions attached that the money, after accumulating for one hundred years, should be given to the writer of the best work on his master the Czar. The Academy, therefore, now announces a prize competition for this bequest. Inasmuch as the original donation...
There are undoubtedly many channels in which the interest of this munificent bequest can well be spent, but we doubt if there is any change more demanded than the introduction of electric lights. We do not intend to dwell upon the increased usefulness of the library which would be brought about by this change. We consider it as perfectly evident...
...will of the late Dr. Edward Jarvis, Harvard will receive a bequest of $500, and a portion of his library...