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Brown has been presented with the gift of fan astronomical observatory from Governor Ladd...
...Boston papers have an announcement that by the will of the late Rev. Frederick Frothingham, of Milton, Massachusetts, the sum of $30,000 is left to Harvard College for the endowment or enlargement of a professorship in Ecclesiastical History. No official announcement of the gift has yet been received at the Office, although it is earnestly hoped that the news may prove true. Mr. Frothingham graduated in '49, and was a devoted friend to the college...
...paper on "Washington and Frederick the Great," Mr. Moncure D. Conway does away with the century-old myth concerning the alleged relations between the two great commanders. Mr. Conway comes to the conclusion that so far from Frederick the Great having given Washington a sword, no gift was ever sent by him to the American general, and "he never recognized in any remark the greatness of Washington." The fiction of the number is very diversified, includiug a new installment of Dr. Eggleston's "Faith Doctor;" a story "There were Ninety and Nine," by the new edit of Harper's Weekly...
...subscribers have given the cup into the hands of four trustees-Robert Bacon and Henry S. Vanduzer of Harvard, and J. Frederick Kernochan and George A. Adee of Yale, with full power to act as if they were the sole donors, even to changing the original deed of gift. In case of a vacancy occurring among the trustees the remaining representatives shall appoint a new member...
Harvard's third gift to the West is the system of individual instruction. This was first introduced by Louis Agassiz in the form of natural science laboratory. The laboratory system spread through Harvard and even to the schools. In the University this individualization has taken the form of conferences and seminaries. In nearly all of the western schools the laboratory system has been to a great extent adopted. Individualization is bound to produce good results; for what both the individual and the community need is the development to the utmost of each man's capacity...