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...time in its history has the Dental School been more prosperous than in 1887-88. Yet it is sadly in need of funds properly to endow its professorships. Several of its instructors now receive no salary what soever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Reports. | 1/30/1889 | See Source »

When it was announced last year that Mr. Clark intended to establish and endow a university in Worcester, Mass., a great deal of anxiety amongst the officers of the leading New England colleges was the result. Newspapers also took up the matter, and the current opinion was that Mr. Clark could have made a better disposition of his wealth by giving it to some college or university already well-established, than by founding a new university. Again some leading educators said that it was not fair to Amberst, nor to Brown, nor in fact to Harvard, to establish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark University. | 1/24/1889 | See Source »

...munificent gift of Mr. J. G. Clark to the City of Worcester for a new institution of learning, to be called Clark University, is well known throughout the country, and has ceased to be a prominent topic of conversation. The proposal to endow a university with land, books, etc., to the amount of nearly $2,000,000 was made about a year ago to the City of Worcester. The gift having been accepted by the city, it was an easy matter to obtain a charter from the legislature. A brief delay was experienced by the formation of the corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark University | 10/26/1887 | See Source »

...Amherst College Alumni Association of New York held a meeting Monday to consider some means of endowing a professorship at Amherst College in memory of the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Among those present were Rev. Dr. J. H. Seelye, president of Amherst College; Henry D. Hyde of Boston, chairman of the finance committee of the board of trustees; Rev. William H. Ward and Colonel Mason W. Tyler. Charles D. Adams presided. It was proposed to raise $50,000 to endow the professorship of physical culture in memory of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, which is now held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Professorship in Physical Culture for Amherst. | 3/25/1887 | See Source »

...write this in behalf of my younger brother, Rob, who will enter with the class of '97. He must have a room in the yard, even if I have to endow the University with a new dormitory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/25/1887 | See Source »

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