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...held last Thursday at Providence, under the auspices of the Brown University Chapter. Representatives were also present from the University of California, Asbury University of Indiana, Johns Hopkins University of Maryland and Denniston University of Ohio. The enjoyment of the evening was still further hightened by the presence of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, an enthusiastic member of the fraternity, who replied to a toast in a manner appropriate to the occasion. Other replies were made by representative...
...most interesting case of all, perhaps, is that containing autograph letters and poems. Here are collected letters from O. W. Holmes. Jefferson, Washington, John Quincy Adams, and a note from A. Lincoln, inviting the Hon. C. Sumner to accompany him "for half an hour" to the inaugural ball, March 5, 1865. There is also a finely written letter, dated London, April 28, 1758, in which Franklin begs the college (Harvard) to do him the favor "to accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some...
...poem written for the occasion by W. W. Story, the artist, was read, as was also a sonnet by Hon. Thedore Lyman and a travestied translation of Horace by Dr. John O. Sargent. Speeches followed by the Hon. Carl Schurz, Judge Addison Brown, Francis M. Weld, Prof. J. M. Pierce, Mayor A. A. Low, of Brooklyn, and others...
...seventeenth annual dinner of the Harvard Club was given at Delmonico's in New York last night. Among those present were President Eliot of Harvard College, William M. Evarts, Joseph H. Choate, George A. Goddard of Boston, Hon. Charles W. Clifford of New Bedford, William Merrick of Springfield, Mass., Julian Hawthorne and Horatio Alger...
...Hon. H. G. Parker and Francis J. Parker, executors of the late Chief Justice Joel Parker, have notified the trustees of Dartmouth College of their readiness to pay to the college the sum of $50,000 as the first instalment of Judge Parker's bequest for the establishment of a law department in the institution...