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...Parker's beautiful Hanover home. Out of this friendship and admiration for one of the college's most popular professors resulted the bequest of $50,000 to the college. An added interest attaches to the gift for the reason that no one was aware of the intention of the benefactor until after his death...
...number of men who have been turned away disappointed from the Bursar's lottery year after year, is but too well known. The handsome buildings which have risen around us bear witness to the generosity of Harvard's friends. Here is an opportunity for some would-be-benefactor of the college, which we hope will not be neglected. A large dormitory heated by steam, with single and double rooms at a medium price, could easily be filled and would prove a very acceptable source of income to the college...
...There were four important events in the law school in the year 1881-82. The construction of an elegant and spacious building for the school was begun; a new professorship was endowed with the sum of $90,000 by an anonymous benefactor; to this professorship Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was chosen; and finally a book fund was raised by subscription to the amount of $47,000, of which $25,-230 had been paid on September...
...gymnasium has received some repairs. The roof has been fixed and a new covering has been put upon the running track. I suppose that it will be necessary to be content with the old one until some benefactor appears, but a new gymnasium is one of the most pressing needs of our college...
...father; the residue of her gift is to be devoted to the maintenance and care of the university library, which already ranks third in size and importance among the university libraries of this country. Gifts have also been made by Henry W. Sage, Hiram Sibley and a modest benefactor, whose name has not been made public, for the improvement of the botanical, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and architecture departments. New apparatus, instruments and models for the departments of physics and civil engineering to the amount of $25,000 have been purchased in Europe within the last year. Copies...