. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. l to 716 GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. the community through its connection with the city schools; aresult which has been largely owing to the exceptional qualificationsand zeal in this work of the librarian, Mr. Samuel S. Green, — oflong experience and wide repute. The latest, and prospectively the greatest, of the institutions ofthis city, and possibly of the country, is the Clark University, estab-lished in 1887 by Hon. Jonas G. Clark, a citizen who, by enter-prise and the exertion of great native ability, had acquired
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. l to 716 GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. the community through its connection with the city schools; aresult which has been largely owing to the exceptional qualificationsand zeal in this work of the librarian, Mr. Samuel S. Green, — oflong experience and wide repute. The latest, and prospectively the greatest, of the institutions ofthis city, and possibly of the country, is the Clark University, estab-lished in 1887 by Hon. Jonas G. Clark, a citizen who, by enter-prise and the exertion of great native ability, had acquired a verylarge fortune. For years he cherished the purpose of founding aninstitution that would not interfere with, but supplement all others,by making its object the enlargement of the boundaries of humanknowledge. He wisely chose to guide the formation of the institu-tion himself, and has therefore, while still in the vigor of life, giventhe sum of $2,000,000 for a basis of an institution of philosophicalresearch, to be eventually extended in all directions within the. THE OREAD INSTITUTE, WORCESTER. scope of human observation. He has associated with him in theconduct of the institution several gentlemen of acknowledged emi-nence ; and Prof. G. Stanley Hall, of the Johns Hopkins Univer-sity, has been chosen as the president; and several teachers of highability have already been associated with him. Several of the institutions have large and excellent libraries ; andthe aggregate number of volumes in the public, professional andassociation libraries in the city (excluding those of church andSunday schools) was 230,750. Of these was the county law library,?of 9,000 volumes ; that of the Natural History Society, an active andbeneficial institution; and of the American Antiquarian Society,founded in 1812 by the munificence of Isaiah Thomas, the most cele-brated American printer of his time ; which has a large collection ofbooks, pamphlets, manuscripts, and objects of biology ; an
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