Word: davide
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...David P. Kimball in 1898 gave to Radcliffe the sum of $50,000 for the purpose of building a home for Radcliffe students. Recently the college purchased a site for the building, bounded by Garden, Walker, Linnean, and Shepard streets. It is expected that the house will be completed by September, 1901. It will be called Bertram Hall...
...water colors, "The Thames River by Moonlight," by David Cox, and "The Stone House, Plymouth," by Samuel Prout, have been recently purchased and added to the art gallery...
...Supreme Court has sustained the bequests of Calvin Ellis '46 and his sister, Lucy Ellis, which convey to the University property valued at about $140,000. The bequests provide that part of the income from the money shall be used for the benefit of such decendants of David and Beulah Ellis, and John and Hannah Ellis as may be students in Harvard College, while the residue shall go to endow three professorships and pay general expenses in the Medical Department...
...reading Dickens and Thackeray this evening--in Sever 11, at 8 o'clock--Mr. Copeland will select from "David Copperfield," "A Tale of Two Cities," "Henry Esmond," and "The Book of Snobs." The reading will include also "The Cane-bottomed Chair," Mr. Molony's Account of the Ball," and "The Ballad of Bouillabaisse...
...very valuable collection has recently been presented to the Peabody Museum by the heirs of David Kimball. This collection, which for many years was on exhibition at the Boston Museum, consists of Indian relics and curios obtained by Lewis and Clark, the famous explorers about the year 1804. Chief among the curiosities are buffalo robes decorated according to the art of the times, ancient bows and arrows, musical instruments and some interesting examples of porcupine embroidery. The last named is especially valuable from a scientific point of view, as being one of the few relics of a sort of decoration...