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...annual prize of one hundred dollars, the gift of Charles Sumner, of the class of 1830, is offered for the best dissertation by a student of the University in any of its departments on a subject connected with the topic of Universal Peace and the methods by which War may be permanently superseded...
...Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology was founded in 1866 by George Peabody of London. His total gift was $150,000, of which $60,000 were to be invested as a building fund, and the remaining $90,000 were to go towards forming a collection, and founding a professorship. Temporary quarters were secured in Boylston Hall by the trustees of the fund, and some very valuable collections were obtained either by gift or purchase. Important among these was the gift of ancient Mexican pottery from Caleb Cushing. The archaeological and ethnological collections of the late Professor Agassiz, as well...
...ways. In the first place, it may be a relic of the student feeling which resulted in the formation of the old "Harvard Engine Company." This supposition has an air of probability from the fact that the chemical engine now used by the Cambridge firemen was a gift from the college to the city, - hence, the students feel that they are exercising a sort of proprietary right in accompanying it to fires. The second supposition, however, would seem to be the more probable, since it shows up in the light of self-interest this tendency to respond to alarms. Every...
...total subscriptions towards the new divinity school are $34,439. A gift of $1,000 has been promised to complete the $36,000 originally asked for, as soon as the total subscription only lacks that sum to reach the full amount, so that only about $600 more is necessary...
...recent gift of Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, to Wellesley College may well be a source of gratification to all interested in the higher education of women. By the terms of this gift the heads of the department at Wellesley are to have "Sabbatical years," after the manner of Harvard professors. Says the Cambridge Tribune: "It seems most fitting that the means for all this should have come from a citizen of Cambridge, the success of whose great university is owing in no small measure to the self-sacrificing efforts and direct benefactions of women from the time...