Word: bestowal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Buchtel of Akron, O., has just given $100,000 to the college which bears his name, making $300,000 in all, and promises to bestow a large slice of his remaining $2,000,000 upon it by will. His sister, Mrs. Messenger, has given the college $56,000, and will also give more by will...
Queen Victoria intends to bestow the Victoria cross upon Surgeon Edmond Baron Hartley for his remarkable bravery during the war in South Africa...
With agony I pray ye to bestow...
...hearty support from the College in general. Though the paper did not last year fully maintain the standard of excellence which it had before reached, yet this was probably due to the fact that some of the editors had graduated, and could not, on account of outside matters, bestow upon it the time necessary for complete success. For this reason we are happy to learn that the paper is to be controlled by undergraduates, and under their management we have no doubt that the Lampoon will be as successful in the future as it was in the past...
...Spring Athletics, he felt that the chance had come to display his nine-month College culture to his charmer. Accordingly, after carefully studying a Sophomore's notes on Rhetoric lectures, he sent her a nicely written postal inviting her and another young lady (whom he generously purposed to bestow on his chum) to come to Cambridge and witness the sports...