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Columbia College proposes to issue an appeal for means to enable it to enter more fully into competition with the leading universities of the land. The college is well enough endowed to keep quietly on its present course; but it is deemed advisable to increase its accommodations, and to make a bid in its behalf for recognition as a university...
...given. They are given to men that they may be better educated and better fitted for whatever they shall hereafter undertake. The fact that out of 148 men of the last graduating class, who signified their probable occupation, 54 designated business, or only 17 less than were to enter the professions of law, medicine and the ministry altogether, shows that the scholarships at Harvard do not drive men into the professions to such an extent as the HERALD would imply...
...scholarship is not received without "a sacrifice of personal independence." If there were no scholarships many a man must restrain that desire - that longing in some fostered even from childhood - to make himself more fully a man; he must remain the subject of adverse circumstances, and if he enter a profession he must enter it handicapped by those to whom fortune has given an education without the "sting" of accepting a scholarship. If the privilege of a scholarship is open to the same man he can, perhaps, get a college education which otherwise he could not have, or, at least...
...Thayer Hall, occurred in Boston Tuesday afternoon. He early became interested in Harvard. His direct benefactions to the university exceed $250,000, including Thayer Hall, Thayer Commons Hall, Gray Herbarium and the Thayer expedition. He has, besides, contributed generously to the support of students and those preparing to enter the university. In 1865 he provided for the students a building fronting on Harvard street which was used as a dining hall until the foundation of Memorial Hall. During this same year he made arrangements to provide for the cost of a scientific expedition to Brazil by Prof. Agassiz. Prof. Agassiz...
...Crawford, a prominent amateur bicyclist of Chicago, who broke the five mile record last month, is preparing to enter Yale, '86, next fall...