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...title to the boat house, land, and the equipment was, by the gift of Mr. Weld, given to trustees, who allow the Rowing Club to use the premises. The Rowing Club has no property in the house except the equipment which it buys. The insurance and taxes amounting to about $225 annually are paid by the Rowing Club, as well as all permanent improvements which have been made to state. The house is insured for $11,000, expiring in November, 1892, and the equipment is insured for $4,000. $1,000 of which expires in November...
...bequest to Harvard from the late Mr. Jones of Boston, it will be seen that while the gift was to be used for a scholarship fund, the faculty was yet left to determine to which part of the university the proceeds of the fund should go. Thus the gift was made, in a way, perfectly freely, and the use of it was left to the discretion of the faculty. This is the spirit in which nearly all bequests to Harvard should be made. No one can tell so well as the faculty what the greatest needs of the university...
...department of Rutgers College has received a gift of $1,000 from the trustees of the college, and a new instructor in mathematics has been secured...
...were two new instructors added to the school last year - one in Electrical Engineering and another in Astronomy. A new course was planned which has since been added - Anatomy, Physiology and Physical Training. A much needed want, that of a workshop for electrical engineering, has been filled through the gift of $10,000 from Mrs. Benjamin S. Rotch...
...mind. And here there seems to be a lesson for us. The man who has been delivered from a burden of perplexity and sorrow must not forget that there are other men still finding there loads almost too hard to bear. Let him who is joyful carry his gift of good tidings to his fellowmen and show his gratitude by giving up his life to them...