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...records of the Corporation are to be noticed the following: the acceptance of the offer of Mr. Nathaniel C. Nash '84 to give the amount needed to complete the botanical sections of the University museum; the receipt of $5,000 as the final installment of Mr. Francis Bartlett's gift of $20,000 for Professor Cook's addition to the University museum; the reappointment of Dudley Allen Sargent, M. D. as director of the Hemenway gymnasium; the receipt from W. S. Dexter, as agent for an unknown friend of the university of $200,000 for the Retiring allowance fund...
...learned the other day from a gentleman, who was once the Law school librarian, of Charles Sumner's gift to the Law school of a wig of Lord Brougham's, the same which Lord Brougham wore when presiding in the House of Peers, and a little of the subsequent history of the wig. The story seemed to me of a good deal of interest and I think it ought to be more widely known...
...third annual dinner at the Richelien last Saturday night. The club is the oldest and strongest of the local alumni associations, and includes within its membership some of the city's most prominent men. Upon the menu card was an etching of the new Harvard gate which is the gift of the second president of the club. Professor G. H. Palmer was present as the dele gate from the university and was the first to respond, the toast being "Good Old Harvard." He said, "Harvard is rapidly becoming the great democratic college of the world. It is to be regretted...
...college library has recently received through Miss Annie Wakeman, a picture of George Washington, a gift from Mr., John Corbett, M. P. from Mid-Worcestershire. The following letter accompanies the gift...
...Dental School celebrated last March by public addresses and a dinner, the 20th anniversary of the first Commencement of the school. The endowment fund has been increased by an anonymous gift of $5,000, to which the giver has since added another $1,000. This is the only large gift which the school has received, and for the first time in its history it has a favorable balance with the college treasurer, its funds being $8,155 85 and its indebtedness to the general treasury...