Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-27
PRINCELY GIFTS
Received by Universities Of
Harvard and Yale.
J. Pierpont Morgan Gives Over ST.
100000 to Harvard.
The Sc ,000, 900 Bi.Centennial Fund Tor Yale
Almost All Pledged.

Morgan had given more than 81, OO0, 900
for the erection Of three of the five
buildings planned for the Harvard
Medical School on land now held in
trust for the university on Huntington
avenue. Boston. The gift is for the
prosecution of applied biographical re-
search" Some months ago. President
Eliot explained. Messrs. Henry and
Frank HigginsOn took a tract of 20
acres of land, paying $550.O00 for 1t.
This they agreed to hold in trust for
The university until means should be
found to buy 1t from them. when they
would sell at cost price.
The medical faculty, through a COM
mittee consisting of Drs. Henry p.
Bowditch and J. Warren Collins, pro-
ceeded to draw up plans and specifi-
cations for the buildings which they
would like to have, and could use next
year if they had them. There would be
five large buildings beside the power
house. The estimated cost was s.. 0OO,-
600. Last Friday DR.. Warren received
a cablegram from Mr. Morgan in which
he said:
Referring to our conversation and
plans submitted l am prepared to erect
the central building and two side pa
viliOns as memorial to Junius
Spencer Morgan. a native of Massa-
chusetts. and for many years a mer
chant of Boston. You can announce
this"
President Eliot called attention to
the phrase plans submitted" which
he said included specifications. and
said that these called for an outlay of
mere than 81 600. 900. The present med
ical school. biological department, is
situated in one building on Boylston
street. next to the Boston public Ii
brary. The erection of the new build
| ings would, it is understood. involve
disposing of this property. which is in
a part Of the city where values are
| very high The new Morgan buildings
| on Huntington avenue will include n
hospital. Hitherto Harvard Medical
School has had TO depend wholly for
practical clinics upon the public hos
pitfalls. More than $50 men took the NJ.
d.. this morning.
| The commencement was rather quiet
| in that the number of distinguished
| men present as guests was fewer than
| usual. The double disappointment in
| the absence of President Mckinley and
| Secretary Hay made Baron Won HOlle-
| ben. the German amba ssadOr. the chief
guest Of honor. Otherwise the only
prominent visitors from other coun-
tries or states We're Vice President
| Roosevelt. who kept out of sight in
Sanders Theatre and tried to at the
| dinner. but made Il speech after all:
| Wayne McVeagh, who will deliver the
| Phi BETA Kappa grafton: John Bel
| lows of Gloucester. Eng. a noted lexi-
| cographer: James Tindale Mitchell Of
| the Pennsylvania supreme court: and
JacObus Henricus Won Hoff. described
by President Eliot in comforting LII. d.
as the greatest living physical chemist.
| Senator Hoar presided at the alumni
| dinner and he and others made ex-
| ceedingly Mandatory references to the
President and secretary of state.
The exercises followed the usual pro-
gram. The regular meeting of the
board of Overseers always held on
| commencement morning. and the for
| NAL vote was taken granting the hon
| orary degrees.
From 10 to the polls were opened
at Massachusetts hall for the election
of overseers. Five We're elected to fill
| the places of those retiring. and one
was elected to fill the vacancy caused
! by the failure to elect one man last
| year.
| The regular commencement exercises
| took place i'm Sanders Theatre at 10. At
a quarter of the hour the president
and fellows of the university with the
overseers and the various faculties,
met the recipients of the honorary de-
grees. Gov Crane and his staff and
other invited guests with all the alum
nj They then marched to Sanders
treatre. escorted by all the seniors and
other candidates for degrees. in their
caps and gowns. All the alumni march
ed in ella sses and it was a very impress
sive sight to see the aged. single rep
resentatives of the classes below the
SOS and the throngs of graduates in
the more recent classes.
The exercises themselves We're not
! elaborate. The commencement speak
ers were four in number. Lawrence
Hayward of Marlborough. Mass, gave
the Latin salutatOry, de Republica
Amplificanda." a discourse on expan-
sion. He received the second year hon.
ors and final honors in ella ssics.
Sanford Henry Eisner Freund, the
most brilliant student in the class.
spoke on MY Lord Jeffries Tries a
Case" Freund, who gets his degree in
three years summa cum laude, is an
Andover man and lives in New York.
He is now in the Harvard Law school.
Samuel Smith Drury Of Bristol. r. L..
had as his part an essay on Biology
in Modern Poetry" He is a graduate
of the ROxbury Latin school and will
teach at Pomfret. next year.
The graduating class in the law
school was represented by Herbert
Claude Kahn of indianapolis. wha
spoke on 1.-The Doctrine of Judicial
Precedents at the Common Law"
Kahn holds an A. r. from Indiana
University in addition to his Harvard
degree.
President Eliot followed the usual
routine, giving out the vast number Of
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