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...thousand volumes, and was described by Mr. Robert C. Winthrop as the most valuable library of English books with which he was acquainted. Before the death of Mr. Dowse, he conveyed this library, gathered with infinite care, to the Massachusetts Historical Society, thus becoming at that time its chief benefactor. His executors, authorized by his will to distribute the residue of his estate for "literary, scientific, and charitable purposes", conveyed to the City of Cambridge $10,000 on condition that $600 a year should be paid "every year forever" to "provide one or more courses of lectures of the highest...
...large signal drum given the Museum by Dr. A. H. Rice '98, has been placed with the South American material on the second floor. Dr. Rice, several times previously the benefactor of the Museum, has spent many years in research on the banks of the Amazon and the Orinoco...
...giving of money to colleges has always been considered one of the best ways of serving social betterment. It offers freedom and enlightenment to the nation through improving facilities for education and presents an excellent method for a man of wealth to become a real benefactor. Labor, with its plan of state and Federal endowment of colleges would limit and deaden education. There would be less variations, less diversity, less freedom in educational opportunities. All minds would be sent through the same machinery and cast in the same mould...
...great scheme, this plan of Mr. Ford's. If it works, he will go down in history as the great benefactor of America. If it doesn't, he will at least be blessed with the satisfaction that honest, if not practical, endeavor has been...
...girl's romance, continues to be popular, both in book form and on the stage. One's interest is held to the final curtain by the element of mystery provided by Judy's ignorance as to the identity of her guardian. The "happy ending" which comes when Judy's benefactor and devoted lover prove to be one and the same person furnishes a pleasing conclusion to the play...