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Columbia has recently received a gift of $100,000 from John D. Rockefeller of New York. The terms of the deed provide for the use of the money in the endowment of the chair of psychology...
...Peabody Museum has recently received a very valuable totem pole from Alaska, the gift of Mr. E. H. Harriman. The specimen is a Haida pole, 25 feet in length and is one of five carried away recently from Cape Fox Village by the Harriman Scientific Expedition. The pole was obtained for the Peabody Museum by Mr. Charles Palache. Cape Fox Village, which is on the mainland about 50 miles above the southern boundary of Alaska, was abandoned by the Indians twenty-five years...
...number of the graduate classes having wished to make some permanent gift to the University, it has been suggested that the gifts take the form of a memorial fence around the Yard. Before any attempt is made towards erecting such a fence, sufficient money will have to be subscribed to build it from the old Johnston gate, opposite the Unitarian Chuch, to the Meyer gate...
...Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school and the new dormitories are now in course of erection. And now, within a week, the Provost has announced an anonymous gift of $200,000, which is to be expended in building a physical laboratory...
...room for books, study rooms for professor and advanced students, increased space for administration, and a better reading room. He says: "It is a singular fact that, at a time when the building of libraries has become a favorite form of public benefaction, Harvard has not received any great gift for a library building. It is useless to expect an ample equipment and a generous building from any other source." In summarizing the requirements, Professor Lane puts beauty first because he believes "that the Library does not take the place it should in the life of the University...