Word: endowed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...joint committee has been formed to secure an endowment for the Veterinary School, with the intent of enlarging its scope and giving it a distinctly scientific character by making it a school of comparative as well as veterinary medicine. The committee consists of Dr. David W. Chever '52 and Messrs. Moses Williams '68 and Francis L. Higginson '63, appointed by the Board of Overseers and President Eliot, and Dr. Cabot appointed by the Corporation, together with the visiting committee of the Veterinary School. The school will bear the name of him who shall endow...
...William Belden Noble of Washington, has given to the University a fund of $20,000 to endow a lectureship in memory of her husband, a clergyman of the Episcopal Church and a graduate of Harvard in '85. The lectures are intended to perpetuate the influence of religion as represented by Phillips Brooks and may deal with any subject upon which Christianity has a bearing. The selection of the lecturers is committed to seven trustees: President Eliot, Professor Peabody, Bishop Lawrence, Dr. Mackenzie, Dean Hodges, Professor A. V. G. Allen, and Dr. George A. Gordon...
...sustained interest in its helpful work which would accrue from a large number of contributors. It is earnestly to be hoped therefore that both individual and concerted action may be taken by students and graduates to procure the sum, estimated at $50,000, necessary to build, equip and partially endow the Harvard Infirmary...
...them on a dray, a model of the Harvard statue, supported by burlesque personations of a butcher, a cooper, and a grocer, in allusion to the father and two step-fathers of John Harvard, who left their little fortunes to his mother, whence the property passed to him to endow finally the infant college. The group was labelled "Johnnie Harvard's Pas." The Seniors carried also a transparency worded as follows: "We are the oldest living graduates...
...awakening in letters and oratory has been greatly stimulated by the founding of the chair in rhetoric, also by the receipt of the sum of $70,000 bequeathed by the late Judge Billings for the establishment of a fund to endow a professorship in English literature. As the CRIMSON editorially remarked last week, both the Faculty and students are united in their efforts to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education...