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...After a short prayer had been offered up by Edward Everett Hale, the Rev. George E. Ellis stepped forward and delivered the address. After the president, officers, students and alumni of Harvard College were recognized, he began by thanking the donor of the statue for the valuable and thoughtful gift to the University. It was only just and suitable that Mr. Bridge should address the college at large, but as he had refused, his modesty must be the substitute for his speech. That he had traveled much and has twice encircled the globe was unnecessary to remind those present...
...move in the right direction has now been made, and what statue of John Harvard, which is soon to be placed in the Delta, will most fittingly inaugurate the era of better things. It is to be hoped that the improvement will not cease with this gift, but that our grounds may. within the next few years, receive monuments of the many illustrious men whom Harvard is proud to number among her dead...
...geography, antiquities, and art of ancient Greece. Works of this kind are expensive, and at the end of the second year the books in the library obtained by direct purchase will have cost $2500. Of this sum the committee voted from its funds $2000." The remaining $500 was the gift of a friend, whose name is withheld. A list of the theses which were presented by six of the seven members of the school during the first year, is given, together with the names of the successful candidates. The theses which are recommended for publication will be issued with...
...university of Lewisburg has received a gift of $100,000 from William Bucknell, of Philadelphia...
...alumnus of the Law School, in a letter to the Advertiser, thus upbraids the alumni of that department for lack of interest in the school. He says: "You have said not a word too much in praise of the wise and sagacious gift of Dr. Calvin Ellis to the Medical School. When will the legal alumni give to the law department of the university the benefit of a personal interest, support and generosity comparable in any way to that which the medical men have shown to their professional school...