Word: establishments
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...From John D. Rockefeller, for new buildings and endowments for the Medical School. $308.758.17; subscriptions from various persons for the new Medical School land, buildings, equipment and endowments, amounting to $189.024.79; for the George Higginson Professorship of Physiology, from Mr. Higginson's children, $100.000.00; from T. Jefferson Coolidge, to establish a fund the income of which shall be used "primarily for laboratory expenses of original investigations by members of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory staff." securities valued at $57,500.00; an unrestricted bequest from the estate of Henry Villard amounting to $50,000.00. The Treasurer has also received from the Committee...
...debate was closed by the rebuttal speech of Blair, who maintained that by the reading of the question a state of anarchy is assumed. In that case the other arm of the government, the national, must of necessity be employed to establish peace. For all lawlessness which breaks out there should exist a power to put it down; when State control is inadequate the only resource in to power vested in the President
...friends of Mrs. Louis Agassiz have raised a fund to establish a building at Radcliffe College, of the kind known as a students' house, in which the needs of the students for food, rest and recreation may be provided for. A building of this kind has long been desired and accordingly two years ago the Radcliffe Alumni Association undertook to raise the sum of $100,000 for the purpose. A committee of thirty was formed from among Mrs. Agassiz's friends, in order that the fund might be completed by her eightieth birthday, which occurred on December...
...following appointments for a term of five years from the first of last September: Walter Raymond Spalding, A.M., as Assistant Professor of Music; William Henry Schofield, Ph.D., as Assistant Professor of English; William Fenwick Harris, A.M., as Assistant Professor of Greek. The Board also concurred in the vote to establish the James Stillman professorship of Comparative Anatomy and the George Higginson professorship of Physiology...
...George Foster Peabody of New York, who recently gave $5,000 to be expended on shrubbery within the Yard, has just given $6,000 to establish a scholarship in the Graduate School. The recipient of the scholarship will be nominated by the chancellor of the University of Georgia, from among the recent graduates of that university. The amount of the stipend will be fixed from time to time by the President and Fellows of Harvard College...