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Christopher Gore was one of Harvard's greatest benefactors, and the library which stood on the site of the present Widener Library Building from 1838 until it was torn down in 1912, was built from his bequest to Harvard College. The building was called Gore Hall, and the name was transferred to the dormitory of that name on its erection...
...typical example of the mental gymnastics which have helped the University to salve its conscience in using restricted funds for general purposes is evident in President Lowell's report in which he considers the use of the Pierce bequest to the Philosophy Department. The value of the gift to the Philosophy Department was in effect cancelled, but the process was so subtle that the President felt that the conditions of the bequest had not been violated...
More than twenty years ago the Governing Boards of the University had decided to convert the then existing Lawrence Scientific School into a graduate school. It was not until someone noticed that the Gordon McKay bequest, which had just been received at the time, mentioned that the fund must be "kept accessible to pupils who have had no other opportunities of previous education than those which the free public schools afford" that the impossibility of this step was realized. Thus it was that the school continued as part of the college, with its own graduate department attached...
...been realized that the contemplated step of two decades ago was a wise one and that the provisions of the will are now outworn. A complete reorganization of the Engineering School is now desirable and it seems possible that one can be effected which will not disregard the McKay bequest altogether. That something along this line is imminent can be gathered from President Lowell's report in which he points to the growing number of graduate students, tells of the inadequacy of the present system of combined undergraduate and graduate teaching, and speaks of forthcoming improvements in the graduate department...
...These can be designed for men not going further in the subject in the same manner in which Biology A is not intended for men concentrating in Biology or Zoology or men who will go on in medicine. It is in the support of these courses that the McKay bequest will be administered according to the letter. Contemporary conditions are such that its spirit will hardly be violated in any case...