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...University Library has lately received, as a gift from Reverend Edward Everett Hale '39, a number of the personal papers of Elisha Parmele 1778, the founder of the Harvard and Yale chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa society. After graduating from Harvard, Parmele studied for a time at William and Mary College in Virginia, where the original chapter of the society had just been established. On his return to the north he brought charters for chapters to be established at Harvard and Yale. Among the papers are Parmele's will, notes on Chaldee grammar, and a Syriac oration delivered...
...subject discussed is the need of a new library building, adequate for the proper storing and use of the great book collections now cramped in Gore Hall. The President emphasizes the fact that the Corporation cannot accept a new building for this or any other purpose, unless such a gift is accompanied by funds, the income of which will enable the Corporation to use the building provided. Any person who contemplates giving a building to the University naturally desires to look forward to a tolerable permanence for his building. Such a building should have a monumental character and should...
...first of the series of lectures provided for by the gift of Gardiner M. Lane '81, will be given in the spring by Dr. S. H. Butcher, until, recently professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher's general subject will be on some topic connected with Greek literature, but the individual subjects of his six lectures have not yet been announced. The lectures will be given in the Fogg Lecture Room on the following dates: Monday, March 28; Thursday, March 31; Monday, April 4; Friday, April 8; Monday, April 11; and Thursday, April...
...University Observatory recently purchased, with part of an anonymous gift, two 25-inch reflecting telescopes, one for use on the northern, and the other on the southern, stars. The mountings for the one to be set up in Cambridge are expected shortly, and as soon as they arrive the instrument will be mounted in the yard of the Observatory. The other telescope will be installed at the southern station of the Observatory in Arequipa, Peru. The telescopes are to be used ehiedy for photographic work and will be more powerful than any other now used in the Observatory for this...
...director of the University Museum, in his annual report to the President, records a very valuable gift of insects and fossil insects presented by Mr. S. H. Scudder '62; a gift of a collection of reptiles and Bermudan fishes from T. Barbour '06, and the presentation by H. B. Bigelow 2G., of the collection of over 8,000 North American and West Indian birds, which have been loaned to the Museum for the last three years. A gift of a different character is an early oil portrait of Professor Louis Agassiz h.'48, presented by Captain C. H. Davis...