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aged by the success then achieved, he added, in 1S90, $1,000,000 to his 

 original contribution; then, in 1802, one thousand 5 per cent bonds, 

 representing another million. In the same year Mr. Marshall Field 

 donated $100,000 for a special purpose, on condition that a million 

 dollars be secured by subscriptions within ninety days, and all was 

 subscribed before the appointed day. In the month of December Mr. 

 Kockefeller again contributed bonds for $1,000,000. The same influx 

 of liberality occurred in 1893, when again donations are made condition- 

 ally, and the required complement never fails to realize at a stated 

 time. 



This infant university, which has kept the name of its founder, Mr. 

 Eockefeller, is almost as wealthy already as its elder, Harvard. It has 

 teachers in every branch of learning, and its material equipment is 

 such as to excite much envy. It is not my object to go into an exami- 

 nation of the courses, but one may rest assured that, with the command 

 of such resources, a supply which is never exhausted, and the facility 

 thus afforded of calling men of the highest merit to its chairs, the 

 University of Chicago has a great future in store, and it will make its 

 mark in scientific advancement. 



1 have no desire to continue dazzling you with figures; all I should 

 have to do woukl be to quote freely from the documents distributed with 

 readiness by the Americans. 



The Armour Institute bears a name which the trade in food products 

 has made known over the whole world. This tells for itself where the 

 dollars come from. This institution now comprises nine dei)artmeuts 

 for the simultaneous teaching of letters, fine arts, sciences and their 

 applications, household arts, education, and commerce. "The Armour 

 Institute," says the programme, ''aims to help those who are willing to 

 hell) themselves and to educate the head, hand, and heart" — the three 

 "hs", as they stylo it over there. 



The same methods obtain in all the States, whether young or old. It 

 would require a volume to convey an idea of the liberality with which 

 the citizens act toward the institutions of learning, whatever be their 

 degree. 



Astronomy enjoys especial favor. Observatories with greater or less 

 endowments are erected in all parts; but, save that at Washington, 

 which is Federal property, nearly all the others are private foundations 

 with resources which to us are not usual. The largest telescope yet 

 known, built for the Chicago Observatory, was at the Exposition. 



The founder of the Pulkowa Observatory expressed the desire that 

 it might possess a telescope as powerful as any that was to be found 

 in the world; the Americans are bent on having the largest. It is the 

 ancient fable: Bacchus created a wonderful fox that could not be out- 

 run; Yulcan, on the other hand, gave to a dog of his own making the 

 faculty of overtaking any animal that it might chase. "Then it came 

 to pass that both beasts met." In the present case all the appear- 

 ances are in favor of the Yankee god coming out best. 



