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Cornell University has recently received and accepted $60,000 to endow a professorship of ethics and moral philosophy. The gift is from the Hon. Henry W. Sage, who founded the Sage Female College, connected with Cornell University...
Dartmouth has recently received the gift of an estate in Hanover, N. H., from a "friend" of the college...
...noble gift, for the foundation of a great university, the Senator has united himself with the great men who have gained fortunes, and then immortalized their names by placing their wealth where it will be a boon to Humanity in years to come. He has placed himself side by side with the great educators of the day, by making it possible for them to carry on, in new fields, the great work of educating the race and lifting man to a higher level. He will be known as the man who founded the University after his fame as senator shall...
Doubtless few of the students of the college have learned of the gift to the corporation of $10,800 by John Tyndall. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institute of Great Britain. The money was received last commencement, and its net income is to be applied to the support, at either American or European Universities, of one or more American pupils who may have some capacity in physics, and "preferably such as shall express their determination to devote their lives to the advancement of theoretic science and original investigation in that department of learning...
This is a gift that Harvard may well appreciate, and the significance of its having come from across the Atlantic should by no means be overlooked. All like gifts, aiming at special and advanced study, are always valuable to a University. If but few in number, they tend perhaps to be an aggravation; but if many, they cannot fail to create an incentive for higher study and indirectly to raise the entire intellectual tone of the college or university possessing them...