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...late George Peabody left a sum of $3,500,000 for the promotion of popular education in the South. The most fruitful result of this generous gift is the Peabody Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn. As early as 1873 the trustees of the Peabody fund decided to establish a normal college in the South. Application was made to the Tennessee Legislature to charter such an institution, the trustees promising to contribute liberally to its support. In 1875 the bill was passed and in December of the same year the college opened with Dr. E. S. Stearns as President...
...just given six hundred books of Greek and Latin classics. The majority of the books are old editions. All are in excellent condition, and the duplicates will be useful for exchange. Mr. Green has for many years been in the habit of presenting books to the library, but this gift quite surpasses his former generosity...
...first meeting of the trustees of Princeton since the inauguration of Pres. Patten was help last week. Pres. Patten presided and reported the gift of $50,000 from Mrs. Susan D. Brown to be used in the erection of a new college dormitory; of $25,000 from Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York for the foundation of a new professorship; of $5,000 from an unknown friend for the scholarship fund. Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy were conferred upon Prof. Durell of Dickinson College, on Prof. McNeil of Lake Forest University and on Prof. McMillan, President of Richmond College...
...received a scholarship of $6,000 from Calvin Huntington of Fort Scott, Kansas, it being his intention to provide for the education, in all coming time, of his descendants or those bearing the Huntington name. The need of scholarships is far greater than the supply therefor. Mr. Huntington's gift is highly appreciated. This is the second scholarship that the college has received within a year, the other being one of $8,000, given by the late Stephen Buckingham of Poughkeepsie...
President Carter, of Williams, has received a gift of $20,000 to found a library fund, in honor of James Ruthven Adriance of the class of '78, who died a year after graduation...