Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-10-08
plete catalogue both of the Marsh and the

George p. Marsh has boon presented to
the University by Mrs. Marsh, and is
placed in the Marsh room of the Billings
library.
DONATIONS.
Mrs. Sarah b. Jacobs OF Boston has adj
ded $1,000 to the fund bearing her name in
aid OF students entering the University
from Brigham academy.
MIR. John II. Converse Of Philadelphia
has given $1,000 for the increase of the per
| manent fund.
The same gentleman has given to the
museum an Assyrian slab of great archao-
| logical value declared by the curator to be
1.-THE most important and valuable specl-
men the museum has ever received" The
stone is nine feet high and three and
half wide, OF aabaster such as IS found
| ON the plains of MesopOtamla ms Slab
is the one described in "Layard's Nineveh
and its Ruins" vol. 1, page IS:
| In its original POSITION" writes PROBES
sor Perkins, the cuaator of the museum
and learned archPologist, 1.-THE slab was
one of an extensive series which lined
corridor of the palace, other slabs from
this building being in the British muse
um, and the workmanship regarded as the
most delicate and excellent OF all that
have been discovered in Assyria The
walls of the palace were made OF sun dried
| bricks aud the slabs formed panels. From
the inscription we learn that the slabs
were carved between the years SS3-S59 b.
G., probably about SIS Is &. ibis was -
years before Isaiah, $50 before Cyrus the
Great, 300 years before Confucius, 400
years before Socrates aud Thucydides.
nearly $50 years before the Parthenon was
built or Delphi founded, 800 years before
the days of Demosthenes and Alexander
the Great 1t stood in its place during
the reign of Ahab and JehOshaphat, and
had been there more than % years when
observation-disclosures destroyed SolJmon's
temple
surely this, one OF the finest speci-
mems of Assyriau sculpture, has had a
strange history. Carved by unknown ar
lists nearly 1000 years ago, it was placed
in Nineveh's most splendid palace, where
for century after century the wondrous
pomp and ma9nificence of the court passed
and repassed continually. 1t saw the
grandeur of this Assyrian court in its full
est glory. talso saw its decadence and
ruin, and at last, overwhelmed by the
sands Of the desert, it lay for many centu-
ries beneath shapeess mound. AT
J length brought once more to light, it was
admitted and priced for a few days, to be
again buried in its boxes and transported
by camels over the desert for II time, then
lost by the way, to be Iedlscuvered and
sent across the sea to a land not known
, nor imagined until more than 2OOO years
after all who had wrought 1t turned to
dust and there again it was lost Tor Il
quarter of century, to be rediScovered
among these Vermont hills"
In accordance with wish expressed by
Miss Mary NJ. Fletcher, her very choice
collection of landscapes by American
painters, IA in number, has since her
death, been presented to the Park Gallery
of Art and designated as the ELLEN
Fletcher Collection" in memory of the
sister Of Miss Fletcher
Contributions to the library and museum
have been numerous and valuable, Among
these, special mention should be made of
a collection of fossils, over 1000 specimens,
mainly palmozoic, by DR.. j. G. Winslow,
DHlvllle, Ill. ; a fine series OF coal plants,
so specimens, by w 5. Marrett, Bruins
wick Maine the very important
collection of Vermont stone and
copper implements owned by Mr.. p c.
, Deming OF Milton, Vt, about 1000 spec-
mems, many of them of exceptional inter
est aud value, purchased and presented to
, the Museum by El.hu Is. Taft. The same
gentleman has also presented to the III
brary, besides other volumes, one of the
, date of 1876.
J The class of 1886 including in its mum
Der Bishop Bissellr Charles w. Rich of
} Swauton and Judge Flint of Wisconsin,
hss erected in the chapel very beautiful
window in the memory of President
James Marsh. y bust of PLATO, copied
from that in the Naples museum. has the
legend i'll Greek, "Tha True, the Beauti-
tul, the Good" The Head of st. John,
after DOmenlchino, has the inscription, in
Greek, The Life was the Light of Men. "
The window is from the celebrated estab-
lishment OF James Ballantine q Son,
Edinburgh.
BOARDING HOUSE.
The project, alluded to in the last report,
of Il dining or commons Hall, in which
. wholesome table board should be furnish
ed to students at cost, has been carried
into effect, and has proved to be a decided
success. Entirely satisfactory board has
been furnished at $3.50 per week. Toward
the erection of the building, which cost
about $500, and with its equipments
about $1,000, the citizens OF Burlington and
, members of the alumni contributed gen
erouSly. This movement was greatly aid
ed by the interest taken in the Summer
, School Of Languages, which has now for
> three years gathered in Burlington large
companies of choice people, for whom a
boarding house in the vicinity of the col
. le2e was much needed.
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The medical department sustained a
severe loss in the death of Drs. Darling
and Little, men of wide reputation IN
their specialties. Their places have been
filled with men of eminence. In June,
lSS5, DR.. l.. NJ. Bingham was elected by
the trustees professor of surgery Upon
his resignation of the chair in May, 1856.
!,
Williston Wright of New York city to
succeed him, and the nomination was con.
lirmed by the trustees at the annual meet
ing III June, lssG. DR.. VIM. b. Towes of
the University of Vii ginia was at the
same time elected professor of Anatomy
Prof. Holton, after long and faithful ser
vice in the chair of Materia Medica, re
signed his professorship at the last meet
ing of the trustees His successor has not
rs yet been elected.
The length of the lecture term has been
increased from 16 to 20 weeks.
The medical faculty have been in cor
respondence with other medical schools
with reference TO the adoption of more
stringent requirements for entrance and
graduation. The negotiations have not as
yet reached any practical result.
STATE SCHOLARSHIPS.
One of the most effective and econom-
ical methods of encouraging the more ad-
vaneed education is through aid furnished
to gifted and ambitious young men of
limited means. Vermont has large num-
Der of sons thus gifted and ambitious, and
ltr1 hAff sod 'hA