Word: donor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...College Library has received from Mrs. Edward Brandegee of Brookline the largest collection of books which has been presented since the Library's foundation. The collection is to be known as the Weld Memorial, in memory of Mrs. Brandegee's grandfather, William Fletcher Weld, the donor of Weld Hall. The collection, consisting of 11,880 volumes, is from the library of Richard H. Bowie of Philadelphia. There is no room in Gore Hall at present for such a great number of books, and they are stored temporarily in the basement of one of the College dormitories...
...find it hard to believe that there are men in the University so mean-spirited as deliberately to use the Union without becoming members. It is mainly through ignorance or failure to realize the intentions of the donor that this nuisance occurs. A glance at the rules of the club will dispel any such ignorance; a reading of Major Higginson's words would make anyone ashamed to use his gift without contributing something...
...Wigglesworth '08, president of the Shooting Club, has presented a perpetual challenge cup to be shot for each fall and spring. The conditions under which the competition will be conducted have been regulated by the donor to the following effect: A competitor must be an undergraduate of good standing. Each competitor will hand in his score for ten strings of twenty-five birds, the best eight of which will count for the cup. The period in which the cup will be shot for is not to exceed three weeks. The winner will retain the cup until...
...Professor C. E. Norton; a water-color drawing by J. M. W. Turner, purchased out of the Prichard fund; seventeen lead pencil drawings by Turner purchased from $1000 given by Mr. James Loeb '88, and a marble bust portrait of Professor C. E. Norton by Brenner, from the same donor; and a bronze medal in commemoration of President Eliot and the University, given by Mr. F. A. Delano...
...silver cups, offered by W. Minot 1L. to the candidates of the University track team in the hurdles, high jump or pole-vault, and weight events, showing the greatest "general merit" during the season, were awarded yesterday by Captain L. P. Dodge '08, Coaches Lathrop and Quinn, and the donor. The cup for the hurdler was given to W. M. Rand '09, for the high jumper or pole-vaulter to S. C. Lawrence '10 in the pole-vault, and for the shot-putter or hammer-thrower to L. W. Bangs '08 in the shot...