Word: donor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college is notably fortunate in the matter of free scholarships, the present number being sixty-five. A gift of $40,000 has just been received by the college for the establishment of a professorship to be called the "Emma Speare Huntington Professorship," after the daughter of the donor, Hon. Alden Spear...
...system, and save ourselves from being a subjugated race, is to inaugurate a vigorous crusade against the extortionate demands of our waiters. No reason has yet been adduced to warrant the system; if the waiters do not receive wages enough they are at liberty to go elsewhere. Furthermore, the donor in nine cases out of ten receives no benefit from his gift, for the waiter is stimulated more by the hope of the reward than by the gift when given...
...Donor's Tablet. Inscribed by Ka-me-da, Giver of bell to the Buddhist Temple, cast and engraved by Ko-ga-wa, Cu-ni-no-hi, in the eleventh year of the age Bunka...
...Jacob Sleeper, who is the donor of its new buildings to the Boston University, was formerly an overseer of Harvard...
...physical as well as intellectual education of those under her care. The conditions of the offer are particularly well devised to promote excellence in this branch of education, as well as to stimulate a healthy interest in athletic exercises in quarters where such interest has heretofore lain dormant. The donor of the prizes should be thanked for the wisdom and appropriateness of his gift...