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...Daniei Ayres of Brooklyn, whose liberal gift of $250,000 to Wesleyan college has been announced is a graduate of Princeton in the class of '42. All his sympathies, however, have been with Wesleyan, where he spent three years in the college before going to Princeton. Wesleyan gave him an honorary degree of LL. D. in 1856. Last year Dr. Ayres founded the chair of biology with a gift of $50,000. The new endowment which the faculty and trustees hope to double from other sources, will be devoted to the elevation of the standard of the college more especially...
...number of Harvard men will take part in the regiment games at Brooklyn, on December...
...Tufts Glee and Banjo club started yesterday on an extended trip. Concerts will be given at Springfield Hartford, Bridgeport, Meriden, Brooklyn and Philadelphia...
...annual dinner of the Wesleyan University club recently held in New York, Judge Reynolds of Brooklyn, president of the board of trustees, announced that Dr. Daniel Avres, of Brooklyn, had paid over to the trustees the sum of $200,000 as an endowment fund for the university. This gentleman has previously shown his kind feeling toward the university by way of considerable sums, including $50,000 to establish a chair of biology. After a vote of thanks had been tendered Mr. Ayres, Bradford P. Raymond, the new president of the university, announced that the trustees had resolved...
...twenty-third annual meeting of the Wesleyan University club in New York Thursday night, announcement was made of a gift of $250,000 by Dr. Daniel Ayres, of Brooklyn, N. Y. a graduate of fifty years standing...