Word: founder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foundations and trimmings are made of light granite while the walls are made of pressed brick. It has four stories with a tower in the centre in which a clock is to be placed. The work is under the personal supervision of the founder, who devotes his entire time and attention to the welfare of the college. It is his intention to found this college after the method of the old European universities, although it will be modeled on the plan of no particular one. There will be a board of corporators, consisting of nine persons, who will have control...
...privileges, immunities, rights and powers, including that of conferring degrees, held, enjoyed and exercised by universities and colleges of this Commonwealth. The petition asks that the institution may be known by the name of Clark University This is in recognition of the munificence of its originator and founder, as shown by an endowment of $1,000,000 and probably more, should the community exhibit substantial evidence of its sympathy, encouragement and support...
...Founder's Day was celebrated at Cornell last Wednesday, with a great deal of ceremony. Hereafter Founder's Day will be a regular annual holiday...
...classmates. Special assignments are, on the whole, unjust; every needy man in college can work hard enough to be entitled to aid, and because a man who won't work hard, happens to be the grandson of a member of an old class, or a distant relative of a founder of a fund, he is not by that any more worthy of help...
...play "Tangled Lives," which is being represented at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, was written by Robert Kelley, '79, a founder of the Yale News and a prominent athlete...