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done in the department of literature and language should 

 be increased. Every student should be trained to accurate, 

 effective and graceful expression, both oral and written. 

 No one is prepared for the battle of life until he is ready to 

 find solace, inspiration and guidance by converse, through 

 our literature, with the great masters that have preceded us. 

 Nor is the course, as thus partially outlined, sufficient. 

 Man is a religious being. The college should provide means 

 of religious culture. The brief chapel exercise of each 

 morning, and the Sabbath services now regularly held, 

 tosrether with such other means of religious culture as are 

 now provided, we believe are essential to the highest welfare 

 of every student. 



Gifts to the College. 

 Gifts to Library. 



From LeanderWetherell, of Boston, 1,410 bound volumes, 

 including complete sets of Agricultural Reports of Ohio, 

 New York, Vermont, and several hundred pamphlets. 



From Herbert S. Carruth, of Boston, seventy volumes of 

 latest publications in history, science and literature. 



Gifts to Museum. 



From the United States Fish Commission, a representative 

 collection, numbering some two hundred species of the in- 

 vertebrates of the coast. 



From W. E. Rutherford, of Westhampton, a collection of 

 one hundred and fifty specimens of birds' eggs, containing 

 some quite rare species. 



Gift to Botanical Museum. 



From William S. Lyon, of Los Angeles, Cal., over two 

 hundred specimens of the flora of California, to the herbarium 

 of the college. 



Gift to the College. 



From the United States Government, a set of weights 

 and measures, to be kept as a standard of authority. (Joint 

 Resolution of Congress, March 3, 1881.) 



