Word: asa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...original building was put up in 1864 to house the collection and library of Asa Gray h.'44. It eventually proved, however, inadequate for the purpose, and presented a great danger of fire with the consequent loss of its valuable contests. The reconstruction was begun in 1910, when N. T. Kidder '82 gave $11,000 for the erection of a wing to contain a portion of the plant specimens, which now number 485,000 sheets. The following year, an anonymous donation of $25,000 was used for the purpose of building the southwest wing to provide for the library...
While the Faculty of the present day are the most perfect instructors, it is supposed that some leadership, of a supreme order, might be of service to Harvard, and through Harvard to the country. Older graduates remember, gratefully, the good they gained from James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, and other leaders of men, who were lecturers, and the regret they felt that Harvard did not employ John Fiske, J. H. Choate, J. C. Carter, George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, J. L. Motley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. H. Prescott, and others like them, as regular lecturers...
...state of congestion. The new structure will be a two-story addition to the present building and will extend to the west toward Garden street, taking the place of the old library wing, which will be removed, and covering part of the site recently occupied by the Asa Gray House, which was removed some weeks ago. The addition will be of similar construction to the Kidder wing, the gift of N. T. Kidder '82, of Milton, which has been completed during the last two years, and will be made with special attention to safety. Nothing of an inflammble nature will...