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...proposed to raise among the pupils and friends of the late Rev. Dr. James Walker, President of Harvard University, the sum of from five thousand to ten thousand dollars to endow a scholarship in that University, and to provide a suitable memorial of him in Memorial Hall. Considerable subscriptions have already been made to the fund. Mr. John A. Lowell, of Boston, heads the committee, and has such associates as Charles W. Eliot, Phillips Brooks, Francis E. Parker, and Henry W. Foote. The New York members of the committee are Samuel Osgood, Joseph H. Choate, and James C. Custer...
...Captain Collin has the following men now training in the Gymnasium, from whom the University eight will probably be selected: Cooke, Thompson, Westcott, James, Livingston, Hyde, Walker, Hart, Keator, Polhemus, Clarke, and Holcomb...
...names of Sumner, Walker, and Savage will be put up over the alcoves in the library in a few days. Donors of $5,000 in money, or books valued at that amount, are entitled to this honor...
...project was abandoned for the time. At length it has become absolutely necessary to make some addition to the stacking room, as the increase of volumes has been very rapid within the last few years, many of the books coming from the bequests of Charles Sumner and Dr. Walker. Under the present librarian, who was appointed assistant in 1825 and again in 1841, and in 1856 was appointed librarian, the number of volumes has increased from 50,000 to 155,000. These, together with the libraries of the various schools, make up a library surpassed by only two in America...
...Legate, '77. Taylor took the lead at once, and gained steadily on each quarter, Green and Legate following in the order named. Taylor came in an easy winner in 7.33 1/2, Green being second in 8.15, and Legate third. In the running high jump the contestants were Danforth, '77; Walker, '77; and Hubbard, '78. Danforth and Walker failed at 4 ft. 10 in., leaving the field clear to Hubbard, who succeeded in accomplishing 5 ft. 1 in. The entries in the 100-yard dash were Abbott, L. S.; F. W. Thayer, '78; Stiles, '77; Conant, '79; and Swift, '79. This...