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...person the "Vote of Thanks" passed by yourself and the Fellows of Harvard College in acknowledgment of the notice given by His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia of the generous gift which His Majesty proposes to send to Harvard University for the Germanic Museum. In receiving this document the Emperor spoke of his appreciation of the courtesies extended to Prince Henry upon the occasion of his recent visit to Cambridge and asked me to thank "Harvard" for them...
...Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache. Later on we find that what is now the offertory, was a contribution in kind by the wealthier members to a feast of which all partook. This was gradually set aside, until it became a sacrifice offered by a Priest on behalf of the rest. At the Reformation...
There has recently been put on exhibition in the show cases of the College Library, an interesting manuscript receipt given in 1773 by John Singleton Copley, for fifty-six pounds paid him for the portrait of Nicholas Boylston which is now hanging in Memorial Hall. The document was presented to the College by Mr. J. H. Moriarty of Boston. Some rare Americana of colonial times-about thirty volumes in all-were bought at the sale of the Deane library in March. Most of them treat of Colonial history...
President Eliot's annual report to the Overseers, for the year 1897-98, was issued last evening. As usual, it is a document not only of great interest and importance to the University but full of suggestions of a broad educational nature...
...report touches many other matters of interest and importance, one of them being the encouragement of "migration" in graduate study. On the whole it is an important document and well worth careful reading in its bearings on matters of general, educational, as well as of local, University interests...