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...Harvard playwrights -- their name is legion!" So remarked a New York manager a New days ago on being told of the production of "If You're Only Human" at the Plymouth Theatre, Boston; well might he have added, had he been endowed with the gift of prophecy, that this offering of the newest of our writers for the stage would rank with the best of the Cambridge dramatic output...
This would no doubt seem very strange doctrine to many prospective benefactors of Harvard College today; and it is certain that it would have seemed incredible to the early donors. To look upon a gift under any circumstances as a burden seems at first thought an anomaly. But gradually it is coming to be recognized more and more clearly that the wisest of all gifts to educational institutions are those given unrestricted and "without strings." Of course, if a man is to choose between perpetuating his name by erecting an expensive mausoleum and by founding in perpetuum a series...
...lectures of the second half-year will be delivered by Professor M. Kaplan, holding the chair of Homiletics and Pedagogy at the New York Theological Seminary. The subjects of his lectures have not yet been announced. The course is made possible through the gift of $250 by a friend of the society. The lectures will be open to the University...
...Fogg Museum has recently received a collection of several hundred rubbings from English monumental brasses, a gift from Mrs. George Fiske in memory of her husband, who was of the class...
...Newbury street side of the room, in an alcove 15 feet above the floor, will be placed a pipe organ, the gift of Ernest B. Dane '92. This organ will be with one exception the largest in the United States. Its pipes will rise almost to the ceiling. In front of the organ, facing the hall, will be a balcony for musicians; it will accommodate about 80 people, and will be used by the Alumni Chorus and other bodies of musicians...