Word: generously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principal need now for a beginning of the work and a successful issue is for generous contributions. The Greek government has possession of the site of Delphi, and has all authority in regard to the matter. The French government has been making vigorous efforts to obtain permission of the Greek to make the proposed excavations, but in spite of her attempts, refusal of the site has been granted to Americans. There remains, therefore, only the financial side of the question to be considered. The Greek government stipulated of course that full indemnification be made to all inhabitants whom the excavators...
...lack of a Semitic museum in Harvard-a lack that some of us have long felt-now seems likely to be supplied. A beginning has been made by the generous gift of ten thousand dollars by Mr. Jacob Schiff of New York; we may hope that this gift will be followed by others till a sufficient sum shall have been raised to tablish a museum on a satisfactory basis...
...generous gift of Mr. Jacob Schiff will be, we hope, the first step toward the formation of such a valuable museum in the university that Harvard may become a centre in America for research in the Semitic language and history. With the funds now promised a collection can be made of casts from relics in other museums, and these will serve for study until the university is rich enough to undertake excavations on her own account. It is here that the greater field for advancement is open for original work. There will be ample opportunity among the buried ruins which...
...Annex library has been increased by a generous gift of books from Professor William P. Atkinson of the Institute of Technology, who has in former years contributed a number of important classical texts, comprising more than one hundred volumes. The present gift numbers two hundred and twenty five books and maps, and includes a set of the works of Jean Paul Richter in twenty volumes, the works of Lessing in fifteen volumes, Kiepert's "Atlas von Hellas," a set of Bretschneider's wall-maps, and many classical texts, dictionaries...