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...University has received a gift of $150,000 for the endowment of the College Chapel. The fund is the gift of Jane Norton Grew, Mary G. Pickering, Henrietta G. Fitz, and George Wigglesworth. It is to be known as the Edward Wigglesworth Memorial Fund, and is to be a memorial to Edward Wigglesworth 1710, Edward Wigglesworth 1749, and Edward Wigglesworth...
...courses in college which offer good training for journalism should be grouped into a distinct pamphlet for the convenience of embryo newspaper men but we feel that the enrollment in a journalistic school would not be large enough to justify the expense. This difficulty could be obviated by a gift from some generous graduate, but if there are donations to be made, we put in a plea for a new Gymnasium before a school for journalism...
Professor J. B. Woodworth '94, of the geological department, will return to Cambridge today from an eight months' scientific investigation in South America. This was the first of a series of similar trips provided for by the Shaler Memorial Fund, a $30,000 gift presented to the University in 1907 by friends of the late Dean N. S. Shaler...
Major Higginson has devoted his life to the interests of Boston and to Harvard. The first great gift that he gave to the University was a vast tract of land, which he wished to be named Soldiers Field in honor of those who had died for the Union during the Civil War. It was to be a place where all Harvard men could enjoy outdoor sports. In the autumn of 1899 he gave $150,000 to build a clubhouse which should "bear no name forever except that of our University." Plans for the building were drawn up by McKim, Mead...
From Dr. P. R. Uhler, the Museum has received the Meyer Duehr series of European hemiptera. This collection contains a very large number of species determined by Dr. Franz Fieber. Another gift of great scientific value has been received from Dr. G. W. Peckham and Mrs. Elizabeth G. Peckham; it consists of a considerable number of attidae, or jumping spiders. Mr. Thomas Barbour has presented the Museum with collections from India, Burmah, the Dutch East Indies, and New Guinea, which have enriched the study series of specimens in every department. Among the more notable of these, is a series...