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Dates: during 1870-1879
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RUSSELL STURGIS, of Baring Brothers, of London, has subscribed fifty dollars to the fund for the Art Club Scholarship...
SUBSCRIPTIONS for the fund to support the Art Club Scholarship have been received from the following gentlemen: President Eliot, $50; Prof. Norton, $50; H. W. Longfellow, $50; J. R. Lowell, $50; C. E. Ware, $50; Edward Page, $50; G. B. Chase, $50. Total, $350. Annual subscriptions, Prof. Norton...
...building fund in the Medical School has reached $134,885, $123,000 having been paid in. The proportionate number of students from without New England and the British Provinces has doubled in six years, and the proportion of students who hold literary and scientific degrees has nearly doubled. In 1872 only twenty per cent of the graduates had spent two years or more in the School, which in 1875 had increased to ninety per cent, while forty-seven per cent had been there three years...
...Agassiz Memorial Fund was, on September 1, 1875, $95.553.02, and the Teachers' and Pupils' Fund, $7,142.37, though since that time large additional sums have been collected. The Library has received $54,005 during the year as a fund for the purchase of books, so that it has at present an annual income of more than $10,000 for that purpose. No funds are provided, though they are greatly needed, for salaries, cataloguing, binding, fuel, and service. A new Gymnasium is much needed for the 1,100 students and young officers who are now in Cambridge, its cost being estimated...
...this short space to present some of the most striking features of this most interesting report. It is a document that ought to be read by every graduate as well as every undergraduate, and it is safe to predict that, were it more generally read, the Class Subscription Fund would be greatly increased by the voluntary subscriptions of our alumni. There is an earnest, manly ring in the reports that shows how faithfully every one of Harvard's servants is devoted to her interests...