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...eligible. There was no pretence of any examination, and the authorities of the college had nothing to do with the elections, which were vested absolutely in the dean of Manchester and the rectors of Prestwich and Bury. The charity commissioners have lately overhauled the whole of Hulme's bequest, and the seventeen "idle exhibitions" have now been replaced by competitive scholarship, tenable on strict condition of residence, diligence and good conduct...
...Tech grieves because donors of gifts to colleges "naturally, perhaps not always wisely, select an old and famous seat of learning as the recipient of their bequest. Nowhere is the dictum, 'Unto him that hath, it shall be given,' more exactly true than in respect to college funds. The few thousands and the library of John Harvard have yielded a return of honor beyond the power of any succeeding legacy...
...students of Boston University had a general jubilee last Friday, the day on which the $2,000,000 bequest of Hon. Isaac Rich came into the possession of the trustees...
...following is from the pen of "Gath," in the Cincinnati Inquirer : "The recent bequest of Mr. Phoenix to Columbia College carries its available and prospective funds up to nearly $5,000,000. It is the richest college in the United States. It leads Harvard by over $1,000,000. Yet when the two institutions are compared with each other, Columbia confessedly drops to a subordinate rank. Its Law School and its School of Mines have a national reputation, but in other respects it is not superior to any of the other colleges of the first-class. Mr. Perry Belmont...
...library of the late Dr. Charles Pickering has been presented to the College, and for the first time in the case of such a bequest, permission has been given to distribute the books among the different departments where they will do the most good. The library contains some four or five hundred volumes, with a number of pamphlet monographs...