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...first of the courses of public lectures before the University provided for by the gift of Mr. Gardiner M. Lane '81, will be given next year by Dr. S. H. Butcher, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. His subject to be later more definitely announced, will be some topic in connection with Greek literature and history. Professor Butcher, who was formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is widely known in this country through his writings. These include a series of essays entitled "Some Aspects of the Greek Genius," "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...
...gift of $12,000 from Andrew Carnegie has just been added to the fund for building Emerson Hall, the new philosophical building, the corner stone of which the University hopes to be able to lay on May 25, the centennial anniversary of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson '21. This gift, which was made through Professor Munsterberg, of the Philosophical Department, brings the total amount now subscribed for the building up to about $140,000. This is only $10,000 less than the sum required by the Corporation before the corner stone can be laid...
...University has received a gift of over $10,000 for the establishment of an annual lectureship in memory of Edwin L. Godkin h.'17, who died in May, 1902. Mr. Godkin became editor of the "Nation" and the "New York Evening Post" in 1881, until the time of his death, was editor of both papers. The objects of the lectureship are set forth in the following letter of gift: NEW YORK, March...
...selection of a university to administer the gift, it was natural that the one should be chosen--itself an advocate of free speech and liberal thought--in which he was so well known and so highly regarded...
...close of the present year the library will-have spent practically the whole of the $5,000 of the gift of James H. Hyde '98, assigned to immediate use, and of the accumulated income of the Hyde fund and other special gifts, which have enabled the Committee to use in the first year nearly $7,000, and during this year about $2,600. Hereafter the regular income of the two book funds, yielding together about $770, will be available besides whatever special gifts may be received. This will be small compared with the generous expenditure of the last two years...