Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Radcliffe for salaries when they might be doing research work, but says: "If Professor Wendell has discovered a method by which his colleagues can publish the results of their original research with pecuniary profit to themselves, he has only to make it known to become Harvard's greatest benefactor." The third objection to the present relations between the institutions, that it causes the weakening of the intellectual fibre of the Harvard men who have courses at Radcliffe, is answered by Professor Byerly with a list of twenty-five professors "of whom the University and her sons are justly proud...
...donor-but what donor will be attract to Harvard if the result of his outlay is more than likely to be criticized by men of good judgment, as marring the symmetry of the grounds? In a word a well prepared scheme will attract, and a confused condition repel, a benefactor...
...Harvard must either increase its accommodations shortly or stop its growth, now is an excellent time to fix at least on paper the main lines upon which to build in the future. Indeed it is even possible that a well prepared plan might impel an intending benefactor to give to the College the funds needed to properly develop some part of the College grounds, by building avenues and roads and setting up trees and shrubbery, creating in this way suitable building sites. The grading and planting of a quadrangle and its decoration with aisles and walks, and steps and avenues...
...third of that name, was born in Boston in 1833 and entered Harvard in 1851. After graduation he studied three years under Agassiz, and in 1858 received the degree of B. A. He was always devoted to the study of science, particularly to natural history, and was a prominent benefactor and promoter of the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...hoped that among Harvard's many graduates some benefactor may be found who will furnish the means to provide the much needed marine laboratory and to complete the wing of the Museum building devoted to the Peabody Museum...