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...competition, under the deed of gift, is open to all persons whether or not connected with Columbia, and whether citizens of the United States or any other country. The first award will be made at the close of the present year for the best work published since Jan. 1, 1888. Authors may submit works to President Low of Columbia College not later than June 1st 1893, but the competition will not be restricted to works thus submitted. No works will be considered except those that represent the original research of the author and constitute a distinct contribution to science...
...reported in the Boston papers of last evening that in the will of the late William F. Weld of Brookline, it was directed that $100,000 be paid to Harvard College. This gift is absolute and unrestricted. It will be remembered that Mr. Weld also gave some time ago $90,000 to established a professorship in the Law School...
Bowdoin College is soon to have a new science building, the gift of Mr. Searles, the millionaire, as a memorial of his wife, and this, with the new art building and the astronomical observatory, will enable the college to offer many advantages to the coming classes...
...Judge H. E. Howland of New York, and President Dwight responded warmly in behalf of the university stating in the course of his remarks that he favored a duel league between Harvard and Yale in all things, intellectual as well as physical. Rev. Joseph Twitchell of Hartford announced the gift of William Cuyler of three trophy cups to the three divisions of athletics, in memory of his brother Theadore de Witt Cuyler. Judge Howland then gave a valedictory for the old fence and the brick row, a painting of which has just been presented by Chauncey M. Depew. Col. Higginson...
...University of Virginia has established the "Linden Kent memorial chair of English literature," provided with an endowment of $60,000, the gift of Mrs. Kent, of Washington. The new chair will be filled by Prof. Charles W. Kent, of the University of Tennessee...