Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-07
THE AMERICAN COLLEGES.
DEGREES CONFERRED BY LEADING
INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING.
Endowments During the Year Run up to
Nearly Four Million Dollars
Libraries.

Approaching the fact that the alumni OF
the various American colleges who are
scattered over California, feel an inter-
est in all that pertains to the welfare OF
their alma matters the SUNDAY UNION
presents the following glance at the work
of the principle institutions of learning in
this country during the past year:
Yale confers the degree of LII. D. on
Francis NJ. Finch the author of the Blue
and the Gray" He was of the class of
1S49 and is now a Judge of the New York
Court of Appeals. Many of Yale's fa-
nous songs were written by him.
The same college conferred the same de-
gree on Senator Henry L. Dawes, of Mas
sachusetts, of the class of 1889. Mr..
Dawes has been in Congress since
1857 continuously except the two
years '73 and IA, and is getting
to be an old man, having been born Octo-
ber 80, 1916. In 1875 he succeeded Mr..
Sumner in the Senate, where he has re-
mained ever since. His speech at the
Alumni dinner was heartily received.
Our President Gilman also received the
degree of Ii. D. He was of the class of
1852 at Yale. Notwithstanding the great
shrinkage in Baltimore and Ohio stocks
he has allowed no curtailment of work
either i'll the departments of instruction or
in important publications at Johns Hop
kins University. His call for immediate
aid was responded to by raising an emer-
gency fund of 100000. Who can ever
estimate the loss to the University of Cali
fornia Of this great educator?
Tho Inbnc -.
tlmore is now formally opened No one
hospital in the world Is so well endowed
This institution is intended ultimately to
accommodate 400 patients and to form a
part OF the medical department of the
University.
The new lectureship on Poetry will be
filled by James Russell Lowell. Mr.. and
Mrs Lawrence Trumbull of Baltimore,
give $4,000 to endow this fund. If the
lectures of Mr.. Lowell at Johns Hopkins
approach the splendid series at Cornell a
few years ago, they will constitute an i'm
portant event in the history that institu-
tion.
Union College has commenced new
life under Webster, its new President.
Money is pouring in; its library is largely
increasing, and the number of students
the next year will be the largest in its
history. Charles Emory Smith, the editor
of the Philadelphia Press, and an Alumnus,
delivered the Chancellor's address. His
theme was "Our Times Not Degenerate"
Like all his productions, it was scholarly,
forcible and delivered with enthusiasm.
Few colleges have turned out more emf
nent men, Governor Seward. Robert Toombs
and President Arthur being among the
Eptore conspicuous. A costly engraving
of the ex-President was presented to the
college by General Butterfeld of the class
of 1861.
Harvard honored itself in conferring the
degree of LII. D. on Francis Parkham. the
historian, and Edward j. Phelps, our late
Minister to st. James The full text of
Mr.. Phelps Grafton before the Phi Beta
Kappa Society, at Cambridge, proves it to
have been of the highest order. 1t was
instinct with Americanism, and the close
was rallying cry to the nation to build
navy, the superior, or equal, at least, of
any in the world.
Wesleyan University, in Connecticut,
and Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa,
graduate large classes, and are both in
prosperous condition.
Over Sl50,000 has been given to Will
liams College the last year. The invested
assets of the college amount to something
over SS00000 exclusive of the H ,pkins
Memorial Fund.
Wellesley's year ended with seventy
seven graduates. This brings the total
number of graduates up to sos for its
eleven years of work. We doubt if any
other institution is turning out more sub
stantial scholars. Its foundations were
laid broad, and its superstructure is con-
stantly developing as it approaches COM
pletion.
The growth of college endowments dur
ing the year cannot yet be fully deter
mined. The following table shows the
amounts received by a number of leading
Cnlleons so far as announced.