Word: donor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...school at Rome. Six months are to be actually spent in Rome itself, and the other four devoted to travel and study in Italy or Greece under the direction of the secretary of the school. This change has been made in accordance with the wishes of the donor, C. F. McKim. The first competition under the new conditions will take place this spring...
...second in view of Harvard's small possessions in the shape of works of art. But there is sufficient truth in the assertion of lack of space to force on our attention once more the deplorable failure of the Fogg Museum to serve the ends for which its donor intended it. "The collection and exhibition of works of art of every description," for which by the terms of the bequest the museum is to be used, will be forever impossible in the dwarfed structure which has so disappointed the hopes of Harvard men. To them, the gain which will doubtless...
...Harvard has, however, been feared by the writer of one article, which appeared in the last issue of the Cambridge Tribune. The article purports to be by a Harvard professor. After complaining at length, and with considerable justice, that the Fogg Museum is far from being what its donor intended it to be, he says in reference to the Gray and Randall collections, that "the trustees of the art museum in Boston evidently have no idea of surrendering them; neither is there any inclination on the part of the Harvard authorities to demand them, nor has any provision been made...
Captain Wiggin received a letter yesterday which is of especial interest, coming as it does just before the game with Princeton. It is from Henry Lee Higginson, the donor of Soldiers Field. It is as follows...
...Jefferson Collidge '50, one of the board of overseers, and the donor of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, has been appointed United States minister to France...