Word: donor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...morning that Mrs. Pierrepont had given $125,000 to Yale University for the erection of a memorial building in memory of our son, who died in Rome three years ago. There is no foundation for the statement, and will you promptly correct the error, in justice to the unknown donor, and relieve us from the unpleasantness of being credited with a great honor to which we have not the smallest right. EDWARDS PIERREPONT...
...name of the donor of the new building which is to occupy the corner of the Yale campus where the fence stands, has very recently been learned to be that of Mrs. Edwards Pierrepont of Brooklyn, whose husband was graduated at Yale in 1837. The building is to be put up in commemoration of a son, Henry Edwards Pierrepont, who died in Rome some five years...
...question at present of greatest interest to Yale men is whether the new recitation building is to be erected on a site such as to practically destroy the "fence" or no?" The money for the new hall was given by an unknown donor with the express provision that it be situated on the corner by the "fence." Every effort is being made to secure a change in the conditions. A large mass meeting of the students was recently held at which resolutions were unanimously adopted protesting against the proposed plans, and a committee composed of undergraduates from the different classes...
...Whereas, We are assured from the great generosity of his gift, that the donor of the new recitation building is in the highest sympathy with the interests of the University, and will, therefore, gladly listen to the united voice of her students and alumni...
...correspondence - very acrimonious on the part of the Lowells - took place in the Boston press. The Harvard side of the controversy was carried on with so much force and dignity by Mr. James Barr Ames, the captain, that the silver ball was melted down during the winter by its donor and the quarrel was thus settled...