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...gift of Colonel Trowbridge of New Haven, Yale has received a large endowment fund, the income of which will be applied to the establishment of a course of public lectures on art by representative artists...
...exhibition will be granted. It will consist of reports from the Cambridge, Arequipa and Blue Hill observatories. Among the collection of photographs of heavenly bodies will be the stellar charts and photographs of stellar spectra produced with the aid of the great photographic telescope now in South America, the gift of Miss C. W. Bruce of New York. There also will be an exhibit of glass photography illuminated by electricity. The part that Harvard will play in astronomy at the exposition is made doubly important by the probable meeting in Paris next summer of the Astro-Photographic Congress, composed...
Arrangements for the control of the Rice trophy for international chess contests have recently been completed. By the terms of the gift a board of trustees, to control the cup, is to be elected biennially in October, from the alumni of each of the six universities concerned. The American universities, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and Yale, are each to have one representative, elected by the several chess clubs. Oxford and Cambridge will each have two representatives. E. E. Southard 3M. has already been elected the trustee from Harvard. This board will receive the trophy and will determine where it shall...
...twenty Norwegians, who are now citizens of the United States, has recently presented to the Library a collection of one hundred and fifty-five uniformly-bound volumes of Norwegian literature. They are chiefly the works of modern authors. The object of the club in making this interesting and valuable gift is stated in a letter to the President and Fellows as follows: "To show in a simple but useful way our appreciation of the fact that courses in modern Scandinavian literature are now regularly offered by the University, and to express our hope that they may steadily grow in favor...
...second recent gift is a collection of musical instruments from southern Mexico. They are made of clay, and are formed to represent various animals. To the backs of the figures are attached whistles, which give out either high or low notes. As the Museum has never before had anything of this kind, it considers the collection a very valuable addition. The instruments were presented by Mr. C. P. Bowditch and Mr. Stephen Salisbury, directors of the Museum...