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...Ward Nicholas Boylston, of Boston, made to the University the gift of one thousand dollars, which he invested in an annuity, the income to be applied to prizes for Elocution. The Boylston Prizes for Elocution are awarded to Seniors and Juniors in Harvard College at a public competition on the second Thursday in May. The students speak, not their own compositions, but selections from English, Greek, or Latin authors; the proportion in English is to be at least two out of three...
...annual prize of one hundred dollars, the gift of Charles Summer, of the Class of 1830, Senator from Massachusetts from 1851 to his death in 1874, is offered for the best dissertation on a subject connected with the topic of Universal peace and the methods by which War may be permanently superseded. This prize is open to any student of the University in any of its departments. But students cannot hope to be successful who have not some knowledge of international...
...anonymous $100,000 gift for Cornell dormitories, recently made public by Chairman George C. Boldt of the trustee committee on residential halls, comes as a startling fulfilment of hopes long cherished by undergraduates and friends of the institution. The donation is only a tithe of the sum needed to complete the dormitory system planned, but it is being received as a significant beginning. Contracts are to be lot at once and work begun before fall...
...annual report of the director of the Fogg Art Museum, enumerating recent additions, states that the collection of classical antiquities has been enriched by a fragment of a fourth century Greek marble head in the style of Scopas, a gift of E. P. Warren '83. Four examples of Gandhara sculpture were bought by a few friends and given to the Museum, and two others were received from B. A. G. Fuller '00. A gift of money for the collection of classical antiquities in memory of G. G. Van Rensselaer '96, enabled Dr. Chase to buy a Greek head...
...aquisition of the Peirce Collection by the Harvard Commission on Western History brings to the University exceedingly rare and valuable sources of information on the history of the Mormon people and their part in the movement of the colonization of the West. The significance of the anonymous donor's gift can be better appreciated when it is realized that whether the student is inquiring into the history of the remarkable development of an extensive region of our western country or is interested in the history of a religion which formed and developed within the lifetime of men living, this Library...