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...Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has recently received two interesting and valuable accessions. One, by the gift of Dr. Alexander Agassiz '55, director of the University Museum, consists of a valuable collection of war implements, household utensils and trinkets, collected by Dr. Agassiz during his visit to Africa last winter. The collection comprises more than 200 specimens, obtained from the Bantu, Nandi, Lumbwa and Masai tribes of negroes, in the vicinity of Lake Victoria, British Uganda Protectorate, and British East Africa. These tribes are from three separate African stocks and speak three different languages. There are also some specimens...
...described cost in the neighborhood of $300 apiece; and a beginning, and we hope a precedent, in raising the money has been made with contributions from the Class Fund of 1908. In two years' time we hope to be able to install the first of our cases as a gift from...
...Freshman class. It will be assigned by preference to a graduate of the public schools of St. Paul or Minneapolis, but men from other parts of the state will also be eligible. The scholarship will be awarded for the first time in the fall of 1909. This form of gift to the University has been very popular among the alumni clubs since 1906, when the first scholarship was founded by the Harvard Club of Cleveland. Since that time endowments of this kind have been made by the Harvard Clubs of St. Louis, Lowell, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Nebraska. Most of them...
...money was collected, the income of which was to be used in adding books similar in character to what was known as the Norton Collection, consisting of many of his rarest books which he preferred to keep in the Library for safety. In expressing his thanks for the gift, Mr. Norton wrote: "I could desire no better memorial than one which may secure the occasional remembrance of my name in connection with the service rendered by the Library of Harvard College to future generations of students...
...Union without becoming members. It is mainly through ignorance or failure to realize the intentions of the donor that this nuisance occurs. A glance at the rules of the club will dispel any such ignorance; a reading of Major Higginson's words would make anyone ashamed to use his gift without contributing something...