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Amherst has recently had a gift of $75,000 on condition that $25,000 additional can be secured...
...Colby. We cannot have too many endowments of this generous kind for educational purposes in our young country; but with all respect to the good intentions of the donor, we cannot help feeling that in view of the great wants elsewhere and the superabundance in this locality, the gift is rendered comparatively useless by the conditions which bind...
...Clark, one of the wealthiest men in central Massachusetts, has signified his intention to found and endow a university in this city, which ambitious scheme shall not fall behind Yale or Harvard. It has been hinted about town for several weeks that Mr. Clark had in contemplation some great gift for the city, but the public did not learn what it really is until to-day, when a petition was filed in the legislature, asking for a special act of incorporation for the Clark University. This petition asks for an act of incorporation establishing at Worcester an institution...
...much to be deplored as the fact that the English department does not have more scope allowed it, that after all such a comparatively few of the men now in college have this literary curiosity. It is a notorlous fact that a French gamin has a very pronounced gift of language and diction, while the American breed is uncouth and unintelligible. From the study of other literatures we are able to derive a style of our own in which the beauties of several languages are combined; by the study of archaeology, by the study of history of any kind, facts...
...gift to the university has ever been lost, although sometimes a gift has remained "buried" for a long time. It is unfortunate that donations made for immediate and temporary use do not leave behind them a perpetual memory. Mr. Henry Lee left the sum of $7,500 to the college to pay the salary of a Professor of Political Economy for five years. This was a useful gift, but it will out of recollections with the generation which enjoyed...