Word: gift
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University is to be congratulated on the splendid gift of Massachusetts woodland which adds an almost perfect equipment to the present organization of the Division of Forestry. Coming at a time when the Graduate School of Applied Science is taking its bold but confident stand for a better system of professional education in applied science than the community has yet known, this generous gift, mainly the contribution of a young Harvard graduate, will do a great deal not only to promote Forestry but also to strengthen the position of the School of Applied Science throughout the country...
...Harvard lectureship at Yale was founded in 1905 by the gift of $10,000 from an anonymous Harvard graduate, for the purpose of securing members of the Harvard Faculty to lecture at Yale. President Eliot was the first speaker under its provisions. Professor Munsterberg, Professor Palmer and Professor E. C. Moore have occupied it successively since that time...
...Union Library lost 76 volumes during the year of 1906-7. Of this number 47 were taken from the shelves in the last two months of the College year. Only a few of these books have been returned, but some of the more necessary ones have been replaced by gift or purchase...
...Dental School has received as an anonymous gift in memory of the late Dr. D. M. Clapp '82, clinical lecturer on Operative Dentistry, the sum of $300 for the purchase of an X-ray apparatus...
...works of Frederick the Great, comprising 33 volumes, and a portfolio of maps, is a gift from the German Emperor to the Library, "to express the thanks of the Prussian Government for the effective promotion of German-American interchange of men of learning." Another gift from the Prussian Government to the Library is many of the works of the German author Von Menzel...