Word: deeding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...graduate cup for goal kicking, which was presented to the college three year ago, will be competed for on Monday at three o'clock on Jarvis Field. According to the deed of gift, the cup is held in trust by the Captain of the eleven, and competition for it will be for ten years. At the end of that time the one who has scored the highest will become its possessor...
Renan was intellectually an aristocrat. He looked down on all inferiors and be lived that man should not attempt any good deed unless he could be sure of moving the whole mass of people. This made him scornful of all ordinary...
...Harvard Chess Club has received a copy of the deed of gift of the $400 challenge chess cup, together with the final regulations to govern the inter-collegiate tournament. The competing colleges are Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard. The names of P. H. Butler, John Greenough, James J. Higginson, Edward King, and H. W. Poor appear as donors on the part of Harvard; and the Yale list includes E. A. Caswell, the originator of the scheme, and Chauncey M. Depew...
...raised by subscription, and (if the building is to be on college grounds as proposed) must be given over to the Corporation of Harvard College. It is the Corporation which must own and control the building. Moreover the nature of the building must be such as designated by the deed of gift, and the Corporation has no authority to devote it to purposes which in their judgment do not comply with the requirements of the deed of gift. Whoever raises the subscription and turns it over to the college must make the deed either unrestricted or else confined...
...left to the discretion of the faculty. This is the spirit in which nearly all bequests to Harvard should be made. No one can tell so well as the faculty what the greatest needs of the university may be; and even if they were known at the time the deed or bequest was made out, it is not at all improbable that by the time the funds became available for use the wants of the university would be changed entirely. Unless the donor for some special reason has some definite purpose to which he wants his money...