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...This-gift shows that Mr. Lowell's attention has been given to his alma mater during his entire absence...
...interest some to know what a few rich men have done for the cause of education. Johns Hopkins gave $3,148,000 to the university which he founded. His gifts for benevolent purposes amounted to $8.000,000. Judge Packer gave $3,000,000 to Lehigh University. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave $1,000,000 to the Vanderbilt University. Stephen Girard gave $8,000,000 to Girard College. John C. Green and his residuary legatees gave $1,500,000 to Princeton College. Ezra Cornell gave $1,000,000 to Cornell University. Isaac Rich bequeathed the greater part of his estate, which was appraised...
...frame bicycle, placed in the gymnasium yesterday, is the gift of the Pope Manufacturing Company...
...plays, but of his great plays it is undoubtedly the most Shaksperian. For if we separate as much as is possible the qualities of Shakspere, and inquire by which of them he is most to be distinguieshed from other dramatists, I think we shall find it to be that gift of presenting a multitude of scenes and characters, a jumble of styles and incidents, within the limits of one connected drama Other poets have written exquisite and sublime verse, others have known how to depict passion and unfold character: but no one else has given us these transverse sections...
...valuable gift just made to the library of Michigan University, is that of the printed translations from 1832 to 1884 of the American Philosophical Society. The library set from the foundation of the society by Benjamin Franklin is thus completed...