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Aside from its actual professional value, the gift has a particular sentimental interest for the School, because the Chair of Landscape Architecture and the travelling fellowship were both named in Mr. Eliot's honor...
...Library of the School of Landscape Architecture at Robinson Hall has received a notable gift from Mrs. Charles Eliot in the professional library of her husband, Charles Eliot '82, landscape architect, who died in 1897. Mr. Eliot, a son of President Eliot, was the leader in founding the Metropolitan Park System of Boston, as well as the Trustees of Public Reservations, and was influential in securing to Boston the Charles River Basin...
...commander of the Regiment in 1861, who left them to his former adjutant, Colonel Charles Lawrence Peirson, who in turn left them to the University. Colonel Peirson died recently and his nephew, Professor Theodore Lyman, '97 and Dean Ropes have undertaken to encase the flags for exhibition. The gift is composed of three flags, one a state, one a regimental and the other a national flag. Each flag is appropriately inscribed and will be incased in three gun-wood cases...
...University of Chicago has just received a gift of $10,000,000 and is making additional plans for equipment and endowment which will require $15,000,000. Thus the name of the great Western University can be added to the roll of those institutions of learning which have safely passed through the financial crisis. Cultured foreigners, visiting us are puzzled at the American attitude toward education. Other countries have their universities but nowhere is there such an ever increasing demand for entrance to college. It is the vision of thousands of young men and women preparing for entrance examinations which...
...Boylston Prizes for Elocution were established in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston, of Boston, who made the University a gift of $1,000, the income of which was to be applied to the prizes; while the Leo Wade Prizes were founded in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade, of Cambridge, in memory of his son, Lee Wade 2nd '14. The candidates entering the elocution contest must speak, not their own compositions, but selections from English, Greek, or Latin authors. At the exhibition no prompting of speakers will be allowed; and a failure of memory will exclude a competitor from consideration...