New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-21
BOSTON.
THE CAMPAIGN - HARVARD -FINANClAL-
RELIGIOUS-ART.
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BosToN, Oct. 2O.-Butler's speeches being ohSc'
and more than that by RobinSon's dor Robinson Is
scarcely less racy and spicy and he does not indulge
:; +ba FLANDERS and fctions that keep Butler
anolooizing and explaining, the bulk OF the WORK
Is beinp nut in by both parties in getting out the
vote. that is in registering and seeing that taxes
are maid. How il stands thus far is shown by the
registration statistics supplemented by the private
canyassing of the State committees. Neither slde
is inclined TO "haloo" much. 1t will be steady
close work to the end. The Republicans VIII poll
an old-fashioned vote, as they must to win, for
Butler seems likely to increase his VOTE too, shame
TO say, though the old-time Democrats headed by
John Quincy Adams Leverett Saltonstall and the
like are to come out in an address denouncng MN
next week.
The event of the week has been the dedication OF
the superb new building on the Back Bay
for the Harvard Medical School. DR.. o. w.
Holmess brilliant address turned does everything
else here now, on Butler and his demagOglo
onslaught on the dissection of paupers The doctor
did not mention the Governors name but he fayed
him and his base appeal to ignorance and superst-
+ion in the most scientific manner holding him and
his work ND TO scorn coempt and pity, in contrast
with the services of science toward the alienation
of human misery through the knowledge gained IN
dissection.
Harvard is about to perform pious task in rails
ING statue to John Harvard, her founder. The
model has lust been completed by Daniel G. French,
the sculptor of the Minute Man" of Concord. 1t
will represent the founder in his English university
gown and fiat cap The singular fact has come out
through Dr. George E. Ellis's report to the Massa-
cbusetts Historical Society, that next to moth
ing is known of John Harvard regarding
his birth-time, birthplace or lineages the port
whence he embarked for New-England, on what
vessel, in what companiOnship, OF when he arrived
There is no record even of the Will by which the
modest young minister is said to have left his libra
nv and "half his estate, being $780," to the college
which took his name.
A bulky volume has been issued by the committee
of the creditors Of the Shaw Brothers, the bursted
hide and leather mOnOpolists. 1t ciphers out an
indebtedness of So 344 900 and assets of 49, $4,000
But there are backlooking corners into which this
report casts no light. The fiat refusal of the
shaws and especially of the Montreal branch of the
bouse TO help elucidate their condition, together
with the record of largely increased personal drafts
from the firms money during the past three years
and ON the very day before the suspension, as well
as transfers of valuable real estate to female rea-
lives make the whole business wear an ugly as
pect.
Boston's next literary incident will be DR.. Hedges
Grafton on Martin Luther, prepared at the invitation
of the Historical Society 1t will be, perhaps, the
browning effort of Dr. Hedges life-abor in liberal
izing religion.
The Art Museum exhibition of contemporary
American art is the most interesting for years. 1t is
principally of work of Boston artists, and of a
high ORDER Sargent sends two portraits Pickneus
great landscape, which had the Salon honOrs three
years ago. and Charles Sprague Pearces, which was
in last years Salon, hold the places of honor.