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Johns Hopkins University has received a valuable gift in the shape of a collection of a thousand volumes and pamphlets on slavery from Gen. William Birney, of Washington, son of J. G. Birney, the great abolitionist...
...library at Columbia has been greatly increased within the past year. It has received some valuable additions in the way of work on Zoology from a gift of Mr. Charles H. Senff. The library has also purchased a complete set in 195 volumes of the British Museum catalogues of Natural History...
Miss Fletcher's efforts have not been unappreciated. As was announced in a recent DAILY CRIMSON, a recent gift to the museum of $30,000 for the foundation of a fellowship has been presented by Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw who has specified that the first holder of the fellowship shall be Miss Fletcher; and that she shall retain it as long as she lives and carries on her work among the Indians. This establishes for the first time in Harvard University a fellowship for a woman. The fellowship is also to go to Miss Fletcher's successor, to be used...
Besides the Thaw Fellowship, the museum has received gifts from various sources. These gifts have enabled the trustees to fit up the new rooms in the addition of 60x60 feet built last year. Without these gifts it would have been impossible to utilize the new space with the proceeds of the small building fund previously existing. Now a gift of $7,000 from Mrs. Susan C. Warren has met the difficulty to a considerable extent. $5,000 of this sum is to be used at once to fit up cases for specimens in one of the new halls. An arrangement...
...scheme for conducting the new University originated. The work will be arranged under three general divisions: The University proper, the University extension work, and the University publication work. The University proper will include academies and colleges. The first academy will be established according to the terms of the recent gift of John D. Rockefeller, and others will be organized as rapidly as opportunities are presented. Of colleges there will be organized the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Science, and the College of Literature and the College of Practical Arts. It is proposed to incorporate the Baptist Theological seminary...