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...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...
Three Generations looked to him as to a Benefactor, a Friend, a Father. His Precept was glorified by his Example...
...bequeathed by individuals singly; men with means, who wish to build a monument either to themselves, or some other, prefer, and naturally prefer, to give all, rather than to have their partial contributions merged unidentified in a general subscription. It is in no way improbable, therefore, that some benefactor may present himself, or be found, who, by endowing the University Club, will associate his name, or that of another, permanently with Harvard, and will secure to an extent possible by no other gift the gratitude of all Harvard's alumni and students during a long future. Certainly the recent experience...
...encouragement we would state that this very winter the University of Pennsylvania has had given to it by a single benefactor a club-house-Houston Hall-similar in most respects to that proposed for Harvard, and costing over $150,000, as a memorial to a student who died in college. We learn, too, that another University has been promised a similar building...
...believe, therefore, that by proper search and presentation of the plan, some benefactor can be found to whom this most popular of objects will appeal-one who, like Mr. Hemenway, who gave the Gymnasium, or Mr. Higginson, who gave the Soldier's Field, will desire to witness during his lifetime the enjoyment of his generosity by others. As the numbers at Harvard are greater than at any other American university, so is the need greater for an institution which shall unite the various human interests of the students and establish closer relations between the alumni and Alma Mater...