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...near future a building to cost $250,000 is to be erected from the proceeds of the Hastings bequest. The attention of the friends and supporters of the university should now be turned to the increase of the quick capital, or invested funds, and especially of unrestricted funds and of funds devoted to such comprehensive purposes as salaries, retiring allowances, scholarships for undergraduates, special students, graduates, or professional students, administration and service in the gymnasium, chapel, library, or dining hall, and the maintenance of the several scientific laboratories. There is a variety of objects, both large and small, as great...
...government of Harvard seems to think that a thing once done is done forever, seems to forget that there is such a thing as steady progress." All of which should be interesting and instructive reading for the Harvard overseers and corporation, who, in view of the recent unrestricted bequest of over $100,000 to the college, can hardly plead poverty in excuse for exasperating tardiness in adopting needed reforms...
...college is to be congratulated on receiving the large bequest donated by the late George B. Dorr of Boston. The entire sum is given without restriction, so that it may be used in any way the authorities desire. We would suggest that the money be added to the contingency fund, so that when needed improvements are called for there may be no chance for refusing them on the score of a limited sum for running expenses...
...Edmund F. Slafter, as executor, has recently paid over to the treasurer of Harvard College $111,000, the major part of a testamentary bequest to the college by the late George B. Dorr of Boston...
...Institute of Technology in Boston has just received a bequest...