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...seal of Harvard College, with its Latin inscription, "For Christ and the Church," is printed on a prospectus of the veterinary school, which is soon to open. The New York Herald has this from a student's letter in regard to it: "If Harvard can introduce Christianity into the horse business, disbelief in miracles will...
...progress of the Divinity School is described. As to its unsectarian character the report says...
...There were four important events in the law school in the year 1881-82. The construction of an elegant and spacious building for the school was begun; a new professorship was endowed with the sum of $90,000 by an anonymous benefactor; to this professorship Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was chosen; and finally a book fund was raised by subscription to the amount of $47,000, of which $25,-230 had been paid on September...
...discussion concerning the admission of women into the medical school is explained. Temporary objections to the plan on the ground of the risk involved in new expenses in the recent transition of the school had great weight in defeating the measure...
After brief reference to the Scientific School, the Dental School, the Botanic Garden, and the Bussey Institution, the report spoke of the striking activity of the chemical laboratory and the operations of the library. Whenever the expenses of the college threaten to exceed its receipts the corporation turns to the library as the best place in which to reduce expenses, because library work can be postponed, while teaching cannot. What the library greatly needs is funds amounting to at least $400,000, the income of which could be applied to the cost of administration and service...