Word: donors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trophy is a large cup given in the spring of 1912 by an unknown donor. It comes into the permanent possession of that person who wins it twice in succession...
This morning at 11 o'clock the cornerstone of Harvard's new library, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial, will be laid by the donor, Mrs. George D. Widener, of Philadelphia. The ceremony will be open to the University, and will be one of the festivities of the Phi Beta Kappa exercises, the society attending it in a body immediately after the business meeting. President Lowell will preside...
...Harvard Mutual Foundation in the name of a trust which has been recently formed, and to which any persons, desiring to leave their money or property to the University, may now make their donations. The trustees will invest the funds so received, pay five per cent interest to the donor or his immediate heirs during their lifetime, and, at their death, turn over the principal to the University. The fund at present is about $250,000, with probability of an early increase. The new system will probably mean millions of dollars to the University...
...electrical laboratory, which will be built between the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and Pierce Hall are nearing completion, and work on the building will begin sometime this spring. The building will cost between fifty and sixty thousand dollars and is a gift to the University, but the donor does not wish his name made public...
...George D. Widener, of Philadelphia, donor of the Widener Memorial Library will break ground for the new building today, turning up the first spade-full of earth at 12.30 o'clock. The ceremony will be very simple with no address; and only a few invited persons will be admitted...