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...telegraph announces that Mr. Samuel Hill of Seattle has established an endowment for a chair of Russian language and literature at the University of Washington. Mr. Hill is one of the overseers of Harvard University, and a man of large fortune. His latest gift to education resembles those remarkable endowments established by the will of Cecil Rhodes...
...Hill's money will build in the city of Seattle, one of the three great Pacific ports from which American goods have started to flow to Asiatic Russia, an instrument through which Americans may come to have some grasp of the meaning and the soul of Russia. Such a gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens...
...last meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences the Toppan Prize of $150, the gift of Robert Noxon Toppan '58, of Cambridge, was awarded for 1915-1916 to Clarence Henry Haring '07, Ph. D. '16, for an essay entitled, "Trade and navigation Between Spain and the Indies Under the Hapsburgs." The judges were Professor Guy S. Ford of the University of Minnesota and Professor William MacDonald of Brown University...
...communication asks that students using the library be more careful where they throw cigarette stubs and refrain from throwing ink on the marble floors. The Widener Library is considered the finest college library in America, and the easiest way undergraduates can show their appreciation of this magnificent gift is to help preserve its beauties instead of trying to deface the interior decorations. In many German cities the scattering of papers or other refuse in public parks is punishable by a fine and even imprisonment. Such measures are obviously not necessary to impress upon the gentlemanly undergraduates of Harvard the untidy...
...rebuilding of the Newberry organ, made possible by a gift of $25,000 by Truman Newberry, Yale 1885 S., John S. Newberry, Yale '06, and their sister, will be concluded during the present fall...