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...which $60,000 were to be invested as a building fund, and the remaining $90,000 were to go towards forming a collection, and founding a professorship. Temporary quarters were secured in Boylston Hall by the trustees of the fund, and some very valuable collections were obtained either by gift or purchase. Important among these was the gift of ancient Mexican pottery from Caleb Cushing. The archaeological and ethnological collections of the late Professor Agassiz, as well as those of the Boston Society of Natural History, the Boston Athenaeum, and the Massachusetts Historical Society, were given to the Peabody Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Peabody Museum. | 4/6/1886 | See Source »

...questions of the day, is inconsistent with the requirements of a liberal education. That Harvard is waking from this indifference, which so many of those who have never been in Cambridge, especially the editors of religious journals have bitterly decried, is a good sign. Certainly indifference is worse than either atheism or theism. Theist and atheist alike may well complain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/5/1886 | See Source »

...whole experiment is a novel, almost a startling one. What is to be the true result? The answer may perhaps be found in the words of a rude but hard-headed friend who said to me. "Under the present system, I shall expect a graduate of Harvard to be either a d - fool or a genius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 4/2/1886 | See Source »

...Yale-Harvard boat race will take place on either the first or second of July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/1/1886 | See Source »

...Evidences of domestic life are about the place - pots, kettles and dishes taking up about as much room as the press. If an editor finds that journalism does not pay he gets a job at washing dishes or chopping wood, and he does not think he has descended far, either." - Literary World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 3/27/1886 | See Source »