CORNELL BENEFITS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 39, 14 August 1930, Page 15

CORNELL BENEFITS

WORDSWORTH LETTERS

GIVEN BY GRANDSON

More that 1,500,000 dollars ,in' gifts h^s been transmitted, to Cornell -University .through 'the. CorneUian Council: during the past year, the council, announced at its annual meetiiig, says-the "New Tbrk Times." : ,

The' university also annouced the gift by ; GordoaG. Wordsworth, of Ambleside, England, A< grandson of tbe poet, of a.notable' collection of letters in the possession of the Wordsworth family, which will-become part' of the St. John' Collection of Wor.daworthiana in the university library. r ; .■■■ ; The number of alumni-contributing to the alumni fnnd this year equals the number contributing last year, it wasannouhced, and'if "the usual June contributions maintain ■•the pace set previously, Cornell'WilThaye 10,000 supporting alumni, aetting a new recorcl for-college: alumni contributors. Last year Yale was first, with 9,493 "and Cornell second, with 8,682. The increase in contributing alumni was the result of co-operation by,local chairmen in more than 200 centres in the United States and Canada; and a roll-call conducted in April which (brought in 3200 new members. During twenty years Cornell alumni have con^ tributed more than 2,000,000 dollars in annual gifts as am unrestricted fund, in addition to many specific gifts for permanent endowment, buildings or other purposes. •It is estimated that mpro bequests have been announced during this: year than in any previous year. .; In. making? known the gift of the

Wordsworth letters the univerrity also announced that a gift for the rapport* of the collection for two years •wfll be made by Victor Emanuel, of New York, donor of the St. Johk collection. ! The letters are part of the oorre-' spondence which, the poet conducted with the late .Professor ]genrjr^Beed of Philadelphia,, and- were wfltte* between 25th April, 1836, and 10th Dweraber, 1349. Eighteen of the letterr'and rough drafts of ;those'ProfesioslCeed wrote , Ave're already in • the ./'Catnell library; ; With" the acquißitit&.;p|: tha Eeed letters v the .corre«poB4«B«« ia brought, together' for the- first tip*. : In making, the gift Mn Wordtworth wrote:- '■';•■■■ :■ •-.;■■) . — •. ":';:,.-.±^i.:

"I feel confident that the ino»t guftiWa place- for its pjrjrianejit preeerr«tton j« among the treasures" .of r th« ' St< ' Joan Collection, which.-I. understan&rjiljiiidji contains many of • \Prbfesaor -Beed'i papers "

This_ is the second gift' TfMefc.tlis collection has received from tlje pott'i grandson. Earlier in tue.ynrfe* wit a copy of his book on Wordsworth genealogy, "The WotAmortiut' of Peniston."'

The collection has^ also.-recei^el^'Re-cently several book* froi4 i t^«; Hbfarjj of Miss Marian Mead, a Wprdswoi?th ;schblar.\ 'They- ■;wei;e:--:.i jj{iyei;'-'i^|;r.-^ej mother, Mrs.. Hv A. Mead.' ' " '" ~ .*

Suffering from -injwifS;tft hi»^ left eye and shock, E. Chandler, an %M}»V ant nietal worker employed by the P. C. Watt Construction Company, King street, and who livei at 84 Apuka street, was admitted to th» HMpital yesterday afternoon by the. IY«e Am* bulance. Tho accident occurred through a gauge in an acetone welder bursting and some of the glass'becoming lodged in Chandler's eye. , While the total outfit of. clothing wora by a modem girl may ■weigh as little at lib 6oz, her .father's clothe* will tuto the scales at anything from'6%lb to lOHlb. ~