try at any other theological seminary." The word "educated " was here used in a technical sense, meaning men who had received the degree of A. B. and who could, therefore, enter the Harvard Divinity School, as candidates for its degree. I find that the expression has been misunderstood, and I confess that it was a careless one. I ask, therefore, a place in your pages for this explanation.

C. C. EVERETT, t '59.

CHIMES FOR MEMORIAL HALL.

To the Editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine: Sir,- The same fervent patriotism that animated the Harvard poet who gave to us our national hymn, animated also those Harvard soldiers who "mortem pro patria oppetiverunt." To prove his love the soldier died. The poet thrilled the souls of millions with his song; but he too is now dead. Would it be unfitting, then, to place in Memorial tower above the tablets in the transept, chimes, which, by the music now indissolubly connected with the words "My country, 't is of thee," might sweetly express the common inspiration of soldier and poet?

J. W. RANKIN, '92.

PITTSBURGH, PA.

CORPORATION RECORDS.

OCTOBER, 1895-JANUARY, 1896.

Meeting of Oct. 28, 1895. The Treasurer reported the receipt of $100 from Mr. Howard C. Smith, and $100 from Mr. James H. Hyde,

received from Mr. O. W. Holmes $50 and from Messrs. S. D. Warren, F. L. Higginson, and W. S. Bigelow $100 each, to be spent for instruments and books for the Psychological Laboratory, and these gifts were gratefully accepted.

A letter from Mr. Edward Russell, of which the following is a copy, was submitted to the Board.

TO THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE :

Gentlemen, -The gradual accumulation from year to year of a certain sum for the foundation of a scholarship, the amount now somewhat exceeding $5,000 as I am advised, I desire to constitute a fund to be known as the Edward Russell

Scholarship, as a memorial to my grandfather of

that name who was graduated at the college in class of 1759; and to my father of same name who was graduated at the college in class of 1803; the income of the same to be given for the assistance of meritorious students of limited pecuniary resources, whether of the undergraduate or graduate department.

If, however, in course of time it should appear that such aid were not needed, the income of the fund to go towards instruction in the college, in which case the fund to be designated the Edward Russell fund in aid of instruction, or for the sake of brevity, merely the Edward Russell fund.

Most respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed) EDWARD RUSSELL. BOSTON, October 8, 1895.

It was thereupon Voted to establish the Edward Russell Scholarship on the conditions named in the letter, with an income at present of $200. Voted that this scholarship be used for the Graduate School until the further order of this Board.

The Treasurer submitted the following communication:—

BOSTON, MASS., October 28, 1895. The undersigned, in behalf of the Wendell

Harvard College $1,060 to found a scholarship in memory of Wendell Phillips; which they do in token of their love and admiration for him, and to perpetuate his name and fame on the earth.

The Treasurer reported that he had

help

(Signed)

JESSE H. JONES, 1st V. P. and Acting Pres., ADELAIDE N. ABBOTT, M. D., 2d V. P.,

JOHN LATHAM, Clerk,

JENNIE W. MAY, Director,

Committee of transfer.

J. Q. A. BRACKETT, Treasurer,

Voted to appoint the following Assistants for one year from Sept. 1, 1895: Charles Edward Seaman, A. B.,

of the Assoc'n, per J.

and reported that he had received said sum of $1,060. It was thereupon Voted to establish the Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship with an income at present of $40, upon the conditions named in the vote of acceptance passed by this Board June 25, 1895.

Voted to grant the request of Professor J. B. Greenough for leave of absence for the academic year 189697 instead of 1897-98, in accordance with the rules established by this Board May 31, 1880.

The resignation of William H. Tillinghast as Editor of the Quinquennial Catalogue was received and accepted. Voted to appoint James Atkins Noyes Editor of the Quinquennial Catalogue.

Voted to appoint as Lecturers for 1895-96: John Fiske, LL. D., on Campaigns of the Civil War west of the Alleghanies; Francis Amasa Walker, LL. D., on Bimetallism since the Discovery of America.

Voted to appoint the following instructors for one year from Sept. 1, 1895: Thomas Bernard Hayden, D. M. D., in Mechanical Dentistry; Walter Raymond Spalding, A. M., in Harmony.

Voted to appoint as Proctors for one year from Sept. 1, 1895: Philip Henry Savage, A. B., Henry Richardson Linville, A. B.

Voted to reappoint the following Assistants for one year from Sept. 1, 1895: Charles T. Wentworth, A. B., in History; Oswald Garrison Villard, A. B., in History; Perley Leonard Horne, A. M., in History; Martin Mower, in Fine Arts; Jesse More Greenman, S. B., in the Herbarium.

in History; Arthur May Mowry, A. M., in History; Arthur Lyons Cross, A. B., in History; Gaillard Thomas Lapsley, A. B., in History; Watson Nicholson, A. B., in History; Merritt Lyndon Fernald, in the Herbarium; Langdon Frothingham, M. D. V., in Pathology.

Meeting of Nov. 5, 1895.

The Treasurer reported the receipt of $23.75 from Mr. W. W. Goodwin to make up the full amount of $300 for the Charles Haven Goodwin Scholarship for 1894-95, and the same was gratefully accepted.

Voted that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to Mrs. Henry Draper, of New York, for her additional gift of $833.33 received Oct. 29, 1895, toward the expenses at the Observatory of Harvard University, on account of the Draper Memorial.

The Treasurer reported the receipt of $50 from Mr. Martin Brimmer for the improvement of the Psychological Laboratory, and the same was gratefully accepted.

The Treasurer reported the receipt of $40.68 from Mr. Charles R. Lanman for the purchase of books for the Sanskrit Department, and the same was gratefully accepted.

The Treasurer reported the receipt of $150 from Mr. Joseph B. Warner, to be applied to the work which is being done on Gore Hall, and the same was gratefully accepted.

Voted that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to Mr. Archibald Cary Coolidge for his important gift of books in the Slavic languages,

and illustrative of the same, consisting of 2,079 volumes, 444 pamphlets, and

42 maps.

The President read to the Board a letter from Mrs. Eustis, offering a marble bas-relief of her husband, Henry Lawrence Eustis, to be placed in the library of the Lawrence Scientific School. It was thereupon

Voted that Mrs. Eustis's offer be gratefully accepted, and that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to her for this welcome gift to the University in which Professor Eustis was the first Professor of Engineering, and in which he gave thirty-five years of valuable instruction.

1895; Edmund von Mach, A. B., in German ; Carroll Neidé Brown, A. M., in Classics; Philip Henry Savage, A. B., in English; Carl Adolf Ewald, M. D., in Chemistry.

Meeting of Nov. 25, 1895.

Voted that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to Mr. Milton Reed for his gift of $100, to be added to the Fall River Scholarship Fund established by him.

The Treasurer reported the receipt of $583.76 from Mr. Archibald Cary Coolidge as his final payment for the purchase of books in the Slavic languages, etc., given by him to the Col

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BOSTON, November 4, 1895. CHARLES W. ELIOT, ESQ., President of Harvard University:

Dear Sir, -We beg to inform you that the will of Mr. Harold Whiting now pending for probate in Suffolk Country makes a bequest, in the event which we believe to have taken place, of $20,000

to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, "for the purpose of establishing and maintaining from the net income thereof one or more fellow

ships in Physics, in connection with the Graduate Department of the University, to be called in memory of my late father, William Whiting, the Whiting Fellowships."

accepted.

The Treasurer reported the receipt of $50 from Mr. F. G. Goodridge, to be expended under the direction of Assistant Professor de Sumichrast, for the library of the French Department, and the same was gratefully accepted.

The Treasurer reported that he had received from Messrs. Storey and Putman, trustees, the additional sum of $325, to be used in payment of certain salaries in the Medical School, and the same was gratefully accepted.

Voted that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to Mrs. Henry Draper, of New York, for her additional gift of $833.33 received Nov. 23, 1895, toward the expenses at the Observatory of Harvard University, on account of the Draper Memorial.

The Treasurer reported that he had received the additional sum of $1,913.13 from the estate of Mrs. Anne M. Sweetser as the final payment on account of her unrestricted residuary bequest.

Voted that the thanks of the Presi

dent and Fellows be sent to Mrs. Josiah Parsons Cooke for the memorial tablet of her husband which she has had placed in the Mineralogical Museum.

Voted to grant the request of Professor W. W. Goodwin for leave of absence for the academic year 189697, in accordance with the rules established by this Board May 31, 1880. Voted to appoint Henry Lee, William Sturgis Bigelow, and Arthur Astor Carey, Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, for one year from Jan. 1, 1896.

Voted to appoint Francis Dohs Instructor in Gymnastics for one year from Sept. 1, 1895.

Voted to appoint Albert Knight Gerald, A. B., Instructor in Engineering Contracts for the second half of 1895-96.

Voted to appoint the following Assistants for one year from Sept. 1, 1895: Joseph Mayo Tilden, S. B., in Chemistry; Robert Russell Hollister, in Chemistry.

Meeting of Nov. 29, 1895. Voted that the offer made by the Committee appointed by the Board of Overseers to visit the Veterinary School of the use of a brick stable building in Northampton Street for three years, for the Veterinary School, for a free clinic and for other like uses, be gratefully accepted.

Voted to allow the Harvard Memorial Society to have inscriptions cut as proposed by them in the stone work of Harvard Hall, and in the stone crossing of the main entrance driveway in the College Yard; and to place a bronze tablet on Massachusetts Hall with their proposed inscription thereon, relating to the Hall itself, as modified by this Board.

Voted to proceed to the election of a Dean of the Graduate School, whereupon ballots being given in, it appeared that John Henry Wright, A. M., was elected. Voted to communicate this election to the Board of Overseers, that they may consent thereto if they see fit.

Voted to proceed to the election of a Dean of the Dental Faculty, whereupon ballots being given in, it appeared that Eugene Hanes Smith, D. M. D., was elected. Voted to communicate this election to the Board of Overseers, that they may consent thereto if they see fit.

Meeting of Dec. 9, 1895. The Treasurer reported that he had received $91.90 from Mr. Henry C. Warren for the purchase of books, coins, etc., for the Sanskrit Department, and the same was gratefully accepted.

Voted to appoint Charles Palache, Ph. D., Assistant in the Mineralogical Museum for the remainder of the current academic year.

Voted that the gift of $350 from Mr. Isidor Straus for the benefit of Dr. Reisner, a John Harvard Fellow, be gratefully accepted, and that said sum be sent to Dr. Reisner.

Meeting of Dec. 30, 1895.

Voted that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to Mrs. Henry Draper, of New York, for her additional gift of $833.33 received Dec. 23, 1895, toward the expenses at the Observatory of Harvard University, on account of the Draper Memorial.

The Treasurer reported that he had received $20 from Dr. Henry F. Sears and $25 from Mr. Robert N. Toppan for the Sanskrit Class-room

The Treasurer reported the receipt of $50 from a "Subscriber" for the Free Clinic in connection with the Veterinary School, and the same was gratefully accepted.

Professor of Surgery and the Dean of the Harvard Medical School.

In case no essay is considered worthy of the prize, the interest shall be added to the principal. Should the principal increase to such an

amount as shall be considered sufficient to warrant the offering of a second prize of lesser amount from the interest of the fund, such a second prize shall be established, to be known also as the William H. Thorndike Prize.

If this gift should be accepted by the Harvard Medical School, I should be pleased if the first

The Treasurer reported the receipt of $1,000 from Mr. John L. Gardner for the present use at the Botanic Garden, and the same was gratefully accepted.

Voted that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to Mr. James A. Garland for his first quarterly payment of $750 for the year 1895-96, toward salaries in the department of Architecture.

The Treasurer reported that he had received through Mr. Moorfield Storey $500 given by several friends of the University for the salary of Mr. John Fiske as Lecturer for the year 1895-96, on Campaigns of the Civil War west of the Alleghanies, and the same was gratefully accepted.

The Treasurer submitted a letter from Professor W. L. Richardson, inclosing a letter from Mr. Townsend W. Thorndike as follows:

22 NEWBURY ST., BOSTON, Dec. 7, 1895. DR. WILLIAM L. RICHARDSON, Dean of the Harvard Medical School, Boston:

Dear Sir, I wish on Dec. 24, 1895, the anniversary of my father's death, to give $5,000 to the Harvard Medical School to found the William H. Thorndike Prize Fund, from the interest of which fund a prize of $200 shall be given annually to the author of the best essay on some subject in any branch of surgery.

The students of the Harvard Medical School, and graduates of under five years' standing of

any recognized medical school, shall be eligible in competition for it, the award to be made by

award should be made December 24, 1896, and

at such a time as the judges may suggest. On

December 24 I will forward to you a check for Very truly yours,

the above amount.

(Signed) TOWNSEND W. THORNDIKE. and reported that he had received said check for $5,000. It was thereupon Voted that Mr. Thorndike's gift be gratefully accepted on the terms named in his letter.

The Treasurer reported the receipt of $10 from Mr. Henry M. Spelman, Treasurer, to be added to the George William Sawin Fund, and the same was gratefully accepted.

Voted that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to Mr. Oliver W. Huntington for his generous gift to the College of all the apparatus in Boylston Hall which belonged to Professor Cooke, except the small balance and the lantern which Professor Cooke personally used.

Voted to give notice to all departments that after the year 1895-96 no tuition or laboratory fees will be remitted to Assistants.

Voted to change the title of Eugene Hanes Smith, D. M. D., from Professor of Mechanical Dentistry to Professor of Mechanical Dentistry and Orthodontia.

Voted to change the title of William Parker Cooke, D. M. D., from Instructor in Crown and Bridge work to Instructor in Crown and Bridge work and in Metallurgy.