Word: frick
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only this University, but the entire system of education in this country, is benefited by the bequests of the late Henry Clay Frick. Here was a clear-minded, shrewd business man, a farsighted patriot, who saw how he best might serve his fellow-citizens. He realized the dire needs of America's colleges and went straight to the heart of the matter...
...thinking and acting in a very large and very generous way Mr. Frick did a notable public service; and so far as Princeton, Technology, and Harvard are concerned, he greatly relieved a precarious situation. His will is truly remarkable. Of the entire estate five-sixths, or approximately one hundred and seventeen million dollars, is to be devoted solely to the interests of the general public--to charity, art, and education...
According to the terms of the will of the late Henry Clary Frick of Pittsburg, ironmaster and art collector, the University will receive $5,000,000. This bequest is one of 19 left to public institutions, the largest of these being $15,000,000 to Princeton University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology also receives...
...following dormitories will be covered by the specified members of the committee: Grays and Stoughton--L. Jackson '19; Hollis and Holworthy--R. B. Jenkins '19; Thayer--R. McC. Lloyd; Weld--R. Howe '19; Smith--D. Merwin '21; Standish--G. Tolman '21; Gore--G. Frick uC; Apthorp--J. L. Rochester '20; Beck--J. J. Albright '19; Claverly--R. E. Gross '19; Dunster--J. Pickering '19; Fairfax--S. Hovey '21; Randolph--E. A. Bacon '20; Westmorly--W. J. Louderback...