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...This gift has a peculiar interest as Miss Peck's grandfather, Professor William D. Peck. A.B. 1782, was first "Massachusetts Professor of Natural History" in Harvard College (1805-1822), and her father, Dr. William D. Peck, was A.B. 1833 and M.D. 1836. For this reason Miss Peck thought it appropriate that the collection should come to Harvard College...
...places to real pathos; at times, however, the writer is not equal to the tragic situation. E. E. Hunt's little poem, "With a Gift of Shakespeare's Sonnets," is decidedly above the average of undergraduate poetry, while A. W. Murdock's "Hymn to Life" is conventional in subject matter and sometimes obscure in language. J. H. Wheelock's "Sea-Poems" contain some good passages, but there is too much self-consciousness in the poems...
...Parker tablet, a gift of the late Rev. John Haynes through J. H. Holmes '02, is on the east wall of the chapel. It is of plain white marble, and bears the following inscription: "Theodore Parker, 1810-1860. Graduate of this school in 1836. Preacher, reformer, scholar; master of wide learning applied to human uses by frank and unsparing speech; fearless follower of Jesus, bearing witness to the truth; lover of righteousness, hater of iniquity; a hero in fight, a saint in prayer; he proclaimed as human invitations the perfection of God, the authority of conscience, the assurance of immortality...
...pleasant experience. These cups will also lend more dignity to the eleven best men on the team, who have sometimes, within the memory of men still in College, been lost to view in the multitude of substitutes to whom numerals have been awarded. The men to whose generosity this gift is due deserve the gratitude of a who are interested in the furtherance of secondary athletics...
...University is to be congratulated on the splendid gift of Massachusetts woodland which adds an almost perfect equipment to the present organization of the Division of Forestry. Coming at a time when the Graduate School of Applied Science is taking its bold but confident stand for a better system of professional education in applied science than the community has yet known, this generous gift, mainly the contribution of a young Harvard graduate, will do a great deal not only to promote Forestry but also to strengthen the position of the School of Applied Science throughout the country...