Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...students lose in Dr. Peabody, moreover, not only a kind friend, but a positive benefactor. Many needy young men, without regard to rank, used to receive from him annually sums ranging from fifty to one hundred dollars. It was understood that he received funds from wealthy friends for such aid to needy scholars. It now turns out, however, that by far the largest amount of these funds was given to Professor Peabody - by Professor Peabody himself; in other words, that with the departure of our pastor from the College, it loses one of its most effectual benefactors. Greatly...
DESIROUS of becoming a benefactor of my race, of serving my fellow-students, and of writing an article for the Crimson, I have developed a plan which cannot fail to be of inestimable advantage to all concerned. Owing to the fact that the past winter has been unusually trying to the Harvard constitution, much sickness and many unavoidable absences from college exercises have resulted. I have, therefore, just patented my AITEGRAPH (Greek for petition-writer); a machine simple in construction, warranted for four years, - with a cut attachment, for recording absences from prayers, and a register, for noting down...