Word: donor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harriet L. Hemenway, wife of Augustus Hemenway, who gave the Harvard Gymnasium, is the donor of the $50,000 for the Radcliffe Gymnasium which is now being built on Mason street. Miss Marian Hovey has also given more than the needed money for apparatus, and has allotted several thousand dollars of the money left at her disposal by Mrs. Mary Hemenway, mother of Augustus Hemenway, for the swimming tank in the gymnasium. The surplus will be held as a fund for obtaining other apparatus in the future...
These conditions may be changed by the executive committee of the H. A. A., but only with the consent of the donor of the cup, or his legal representative...
This window has been given to commemorate those students who died in the Civil War, but the donor's name will be kept secret until the window is finished. The window has been designed by Mrs. Henry Whitman of Boston...
...Such a plan will, moreover, indicate the demands of the College and the vacancies in the grounds. The opportunity for a man to build a creditable monument would be plainly apparent and would attract a donor-but what donor will be attract to Harvard if the result of his outlay is more than likely to be criticized by men of good judgment, as marring the symmetry of the grounds? In a word a well prepared scheme will attract, and a confused condition repel, a benefactor...
Further, "that the amount of future gifts or the conditions of the bequests is not known, does not seem a valid reason for avoiding the study of possibilities. It is known that there will be bequests, and it is plain that a donor would rather have his building well placed than ill placed. It is also possible that if buildings continue to be placed as now, persons may not want to build at all at Cambridge. Hence the desire to have the main lines upon which blocks of buildings may be set fixed once and for all. No stronger argument...