Excerpt from Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning
IN an admirable volume, entitled Harvard College by an Oxom'cm, the late Dr George Birkbeck Hill has spoken of the 'never-failing stream of benefactions by which the love of Harvatjd men is shown. For Harvard.l Among these benefactions is a fund for the endowment of special courses of Classical Lectures, for which Harvard is indebted to the munificence of a member of the Class of 1881, Mr Gardiner Martin Lane, of Boston.
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