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...announced last Friday that a gift of $250,000 had been donated to Princeton for the erection of a freshman dormitory. That there should be a need for such an institution at a university so closely knit together as Princeton is worthy of note in its bearing on our own situation. It has only been against the opposition of the College authorities that the Senior class for the past few years has been able to take for itself three buildings at the north end of the Yard, and the future of the Senior dormitory scheme is by no means assured...
Several graduates have asked for the privilege of contributing secretly to the Shaler Portrait fund, but the committee has told them that this was to be strictly a class gift. In order to make it so, each Senior should regard a subscription as a privilege, not as a dun. And each member should be glad to give $3, and those who can afford more should contribute more, because this project will commemorate one of the greatest benefactors Harvard has ever...
...Arnold '52 has recently presented the Union with a framed copy of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech. It has been placed on the north wall of the Assembly Room. This gift is one of many presented to the Union by Mr. Arnold, among which are the speaker's desk, the exhibition case in the Periodical Room and many valuable books for the Library...
...last named collection came as a gift to the Medical School as a result of a visit paid by Dr. Chase to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1906. These prints number several hundred, and occupy the major portion of one end of the gallery of the museum. Among them are included likenesses of many of the famous physicians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, besides many engravings of places associated with the history of medicine, such as the Middlesex Hospital, the Royal College of Surgeons, and Barber Surgeons Hall. Dr. Chase's and Dr. Young's collections...
...Modern History at the University of Cambridge, delivered a scholarly lecture last night on "The Developments of Greek Historiography after Thucydides." This was the fourth in his course of six lectures on "The Ancient Greek Historians," given under the auspices of the Department of the Classics through a gift of Mr. Gardiner M. Lane...