Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...people perish." "The word vision is here used not as knowledge in the ordinary sense of the word, but what was communicated to the prophets by the spirit of the Lord. A bright and pleasant vision is essential to a man's success in life and the noblest benefactor of the human race is he who gives the brightest visions. The human reason left to itself can make but little headway while combined with the imagination, it leads to the greatest result. What takes away the pain of the ghastly, gaping tomb, of the faces of distressed friends...
...advantages, it tends to encourage large bequests to the college. Mr. Bussey left a certain amount of real estate to the college with the provision that it should never be sold. It amounts to about half a million of dollars. It is an advantage as a rule for a benefactor of the college not to prescribe any definite investment for his gift, since the value of it may depreciate. Sometimes there has been a considerable deficit in the accounts of the college, but this is not to be feared in the case of an institution which is growing as rapidly...
...State of Massachusetts is our most extensive benefactor, since all taxation is remitted except that on the investments of the college in real estate...
...will of the late benefactor of our University almost one-half of his estate is given to the college library. That it should have occurred to the minds of many of the students that now it is possible to light Gore Hall in the evening shows no mark of indecent haste. We shall not therefore consider that the question of lighting the library by means of the recent bequest is an unfit one for our columns...
...university property, even if that improvement be the gilding of the Gore Hall steeples. But this is a practical age. It is true that "we cannot live by bread alone," but bread is quite necessary. If money is to be left to the university, why cannot some benefactor not gain immortality for himself and his gift by leaving his bequest wholly under the jurisdiction of the university government...