Word: benefactors
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...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...
Gift to a benefactor...
...most rigid economy as to his own personal expenses, that he might enjoy the greater luxury of a generous giver. He repaid the aid that he received at Phillips Exeter Academy by funds which, with their accumulations, now amount to nearly forty thousand dollars. He has been the liberal benefactor of Bowdoin College and of numerous charitable associations. He has stood between many worthy persons in various conditions of life and utter want and despair, and has tided over hard passages in life not a few who feel indebted to him for ultimate success and prosperity. Nor has he been...
...college for women under the shadow of Harvard University, with no restrictions from poverty and narrow quarters, would grow rapidly into an institution which would not only rival but even out-strip any similar institution in the country. In whom and how soon is the Annex to find a benefactor...