Word: donor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Thomas McKean has given $100,000 to the University of Pennsylvania for its fund for a new law school. In honor of the donor the reading room in the new building will be named after Mr. McKean's great-grandfather, Chief Justice McKean...
...donor, Mr. Edward L. Pierce, graduated from the Harvard Law School in the class of '52. He was the literary executor and biographer of Mr. Sumner and has been very active in collecting his works for publication. Mr. Pierce is the brother of Mr. H. L. Pierce, who, it will be remembered left a legacy last year to Harvard, amounting to nearly...
...Corporation on the Randall bequests to Harvard. They have placed the commission for the plans of the new dining hall in the hands of E. M. Wheel-wright '76, and there is every prospect of their early approval. The hall which is to bear the name of its donor, will be built on the vacant lot on Holyoke St., back of Dunster. It is intended to accomodate 800 students and will be run on the plan of the Foxcroft Club...
...June 10, 1890, Major Higginson formally presented Soldiers Field to the university at a meeting held in Sewall and attended almost entirely by students. Major Higginson's letter, in which he stated the purpose of his gift, was read by President Eliot, and the donor himself was then introduced. Then followed the memorable and impressive address which has since become so widely known, in memory of his comrades who had died in the war and in whose honor the field was named. These men, whose names are now inscribed on the Soldiers Field monument, were: James Savage, Jr. '54, Charles...
...Wendell '82, and Dr. Frank Wells '64, the donor of the Wells cup, competed for each spring by the classes, W. H. Goodwin '84, Walter Soren '83, G. H. Kip '83, Gannett Wells '86, Sever Hale '91 and H. M. Wheelwright '94 also made short speeches...