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...work which has been done, and can rest assured that the large amount of money they have raised from the students, already overburdened with demands for help, will act as a forcible argument for the urgency of the object. This morning a circular will be sent to many thousand of the alumni asking for aid. This circular expresses the feeling of the officers of the university and of the undergraduates; it is re-enforced with a statement of the student subscription and also with a list of the alumni committee which contains so many well-known names that of itself...
...collection of several thousand shells, many of them very rare, has been bequeathed to Yale, and placed in the Peabody Museum...
...cannot collect the whole $200,000 here in college, but let us not be willing that any small sum should represent the measure of our interest in it. If we can get twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars pledged by college students or through them we shall have an argument which, backed by the strong statements of the Overseers'Committee, the President and the Librarian in their recent reports, will carry conviction to the hearts of our generous alumni better than any words we can put on paper...
There need be no difficulty in raising twenty-five thousand dollars. To be sure it is probably far beyond what we can individually and personally give, but let each man consider himself a special committee of one to wake up the interest of his family and of his friends in the undertaking, and we have an indefinitely larger number of sources to draw upon...
...committee which have the matter in charge resolved to enlarge their circle of operations. They have sent to each member of the senior class a circular asking for contributions of furniture, books, and pictures. Moreover, they have bought twenty complete sets of furniture at an expense of one thousand dollars, or fifty dollars a set. These sets are necessarily plain, but as substantial and serviceable as anybody could desire. Each set will be loaned for a year on deposit of $7.50, of which $2.50 will be given back at the end of the college year, provided that the furniture...