The Matchett Fund, the Estate of Sarah A. Matchett, $50,000.00.
Morrill Wyman Estate, $50,533.32.
John B. and Buckminster Brown Professorship of Orthopedic Surgery, Buckminster Brown Estate, $25,645.92.
From the Trustees under the will of Philip C. Lockwood, for the Cancer Commission, $50,000.00.
Francis Skinner (Sr.) Estate, Residuary bequest, $43,148.94.
Morrill Wyman Medical Research Fund, $25,000.00.
George R. Agassiz, Museum of Comparative Zoology, $25,000.00.
Mrs. Adolphus Busch, for the completion of the Germanic Museum, $56,600.00.
Professors Lost by Death
During the past year the University has suffered a grievous loss in the death of Ezra Ripley Thayer, Dane Professor of Law and Dean of the Law School. In middle life, he abandoned, in 1910, a large practice at the bar to become head of the School, and to continue his service here he declined a place on the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth which had been the ambition of his life. Colleagues and students trusted him as a leader, were stimulated by his presence, and feel his death as a personal bereavement of no common kind. The Medical School lost Dr. Charles Sedgwick Minot, James Stillman Professor of Comparative Anatomy, who died almost at the opening of the academic year. His eminence was one of the glories of the School. Murray Anthony Potter, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, died in May, cut off in the middle of his second term as assistant professor. He had been an honored member of the staff in the department for fourteen years. Four professors emoriti have also died, -- John Caripman Gray, the last of the great figure that made the reputation of the Law School in the last forty years; Frederick Wald Putnam, to whose exertions we owe the growth of the Peabody Museum and who, a Director Emeritus, virtually guided it until his death; Francis Humphreys Storer, Professor of Agricultural Chemistry and Dean of the Bussey Institution for over a quarter of a century until 1907, died in July, 1914; John Hildreth McCollom, Professor of Contagious Diseases, died in June, 1915, only two years after completing a service of seventeen years in the Medical School.
The only losses of full professors by resignation have been those of Eugene Joseph Armand Duquesne, Professor of Architectural Design, who was summoned to France as a reservist, but resigned permanently, intending after the war to teach and practice architecture in Paris; Dr. Charles Montraville Green, Professor of Obstetries and Gynaecology, who retired after a long and faithful service in teaching the subject without a break since 1886; and Dr. Theobald Smith, who left to take charge of the new Rockefeller Institute of Comparative Pathology. Deeply as we regret his departure no one has a right to lament his taking a place with opportunities for research far greater than any medical school could provide.
Eight assistant professors have been appointed to professors' chairs: Gregory Paul Baxter became Professor of Chemistry; Austin Wakeman Scott, Professor of Law; John Lovett Morse, Professor of Pediatrics; Charles Henry White, Professor of Mining and Metallurgy; Edward Vermilye Huntington, Associate Professor of Mathematics; John Warren, Associate Professor of Anatomy; Frederic Thomas Lewis, Associate Professor of Embryology; and John Lewis Bremer, Associate Professor of Histology.
By the desire of the Prussian government the exchange of professors with Berlin has been discontinued during the war; but the exchange with France has been, and will be, maintained. We sent there Professor William Allan Neilson of the Department of English, and received in return Henri Liehtenberger, Professor of German Language and Literature at the Sorbonne. To the five Western exchange colleges we sent Lawrence Joseph Henderson, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry; while there came to Cambridge, from Knox College, William Edward Simonds, Professor of English, and from Colorado College, James Williams Park, Assistant Professor of Education. We were fortunate in having Professor Anesaki of the University of Tokyo remain another year as the Professor of Japanese Literature and Life.
The destruction of their city cast many of the distinguished professors of The University of Louvain adrift, two of whom we were able to bring to Harvard for the second half-year. They were Professor Leon Dupriez, who gave courses on the Civil Law and Parliamentary Government and Charles Jean de la Vallee Hussin Professor of Mathematics.
In this report it has been possible only to touch briefly upon some of the topics of more general interest, and to the reports of the various Deans and Directors the friends of the University are referred. Many of them will find it encouraging to read the remarks of Professor Fisher about the condition of the trees in the College Yard.