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...this year he won first in junior debate in Whig and was one of Whig's representatives in the public junior oratorical contest at commencement. In the fall of '95 he won first in the annual French medal debate, the prize for which is a large gold medal, the gift of the distinguished young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. He has a remarkable command of language and a very rapid delivery...
...present seems rather an inauspicious time to speak any but works of praise about the completed Gymnasium. I feel in common with every man who makes use of the Gymnasium the sincerest gratitude towards Mr. Hemenway. It is only to suggest how his gift may be of even more benefit than it now is that this communication is written...
...open to the public this evening from eight to ten o'clock. A special invitation is extended to all members of schools, gymnasiums and the medical profession. It is especially hoped that students will take advantage of this opportunity to show their appreciation of Mr. Hemenway's very generous gift. Since many parts of the Gymnasium are closed to the public usually, tonight's opening will afford the only chance to show friends the whole building...
Christ teaches mankind the broadminded faculty, the freedom from gross materialism, which in art we call imagination, in philosophy idealism, in religion, faith. This is the gift which the world of today especially needs. The age is a cyclops with the keen but narrow vision of its single eye for materialism. In America, where the child nation's body is scarcely grown and its sould but beginning to develop, sordid prosperity, even more than elsewhere, deadens man's higher senses and encourages his skepticism for everything except selfish gain...
President Schurman of Cornell has issued the following letter: "I regret to announce that A. Abraham, of Brooklyn, has been defeated in this efforts to enrich Cornell University. Mr. Abraham anthorized me to purchase the late Ernest Renan's great oriental library as a gift to Cornell. His offer was on the point of aceptance when Mme. Calmanne Levy, widow of Renan's publisher, telegraphed that she will present it to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris...