Word: clarks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...munificent gift of Mr. J. G. Clark to the City of Worcester for a new institution of learning, to be called Clark University, is well known throughout the country, and has ceased to be a prominent topic of conversation. The proposal to endow a university with land, books, etc., to the amount of nearly $2,000,000 was made about a year ago to the City of Worcester. The gift having been accepted by the city, it was an easy matter to obtain a charter from the legislature. A brief delay was experienced by the formation of the corporation...
...college develops and increases its numbers but slowly, Mr. Clark and the corporation have wisely decided that this new building is sufficiently large and commodious for the present needs of the college, and that the rest of the buildings shall not be started until the increasing demands of a growing university make them necessary. This main building is situated in the midst of a beautiful expanse of country, consisting of some ten acres about a mile from the centre of Worcester. It is situated upon a gentle slope about 400 feet from the street, while at its side...
...like amount to those of neighboring institutions. The building of the professional schools which are to be added, is to be deterred until a year or so before the first class graduates. There are to be no dormitories, at least for the first two years. Mr. Clark believes that for the present none are needed, as he expects to draw his pupils mainly form the young men of Worcester who either do not care to leave home to attend college or whose means would not permit them to do so. He offers to such men the advantages of the larger...
...richly endowed university is in progress of construction at Worcester, Mass. The plans and intentions of the founder are given in another column. There is a question in the minds of many learned and able men whether the munificent sum donated by its founder, Mr. Clark, could not have been used to better purpose by endowing one of the many small colleges struggling for an existence, or by placing the money in the hands of the trustees of some university like Harvard. Doubtless great good would have been done in either case. Be that as it may, Mr. Clark...
...telegram from Worcester says that the trustees of the new Clark University in that city have in their minds four Harvard professors for the presidency of the institution. Mathematics, physics and literature are the departments at present represented by these gentleman, the dispatch further states...