Word: gift
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...University has received an anonymous gift of $1,000 to be added to the Julius Dexter Scholarship. The fund, thus increased, amounts to $6,336.03. The income is "devoted to aiding worthy and needy undergraduates in the academical department of Harvard University--those from Cincinnati in particular and from Ohio in general to be preferred over others...
During the past summer the Germanic Museum has received a gift of $50,000 from Adolphus Busch of St. Louis toward the fund for the erection of a new museum, as the present building is fast becoming inadequate for the increasing number of gifts. Two years ago a fund called the Emperor William Fund, in honor of the German Emperor, was established by American friends of Germany for the maintenance of the museum in its present state, and a similar fund will be raised for the support of the new building. While abroad on leave of absence this year, Professor...
...shall be spent within five years, and that the books bought shall be French works of or about literature, but that current fiction and drama and philological works shall be excluded. A number of rare and early editions of French authors have already been bought with the gift, and the balance will be spent in the same way, reserving a portion for a remarkable collection of works relating to Rousseau which has lately been offered for sale. Mrs. Dixey will give a book-plate to be inserted in the books...
From Mrs. John Markoe, of Philadelphia, the Library has received a gift of $50, to be spent for books on the Italian Risorgimento. The money will be spent through Mr. H. N. Gay, of Rome, Curator of Italian History in the College Library, through whose efforts the Library's collection in this department has been already remarkably enriched...
...front of the Hemenway Gymnasium there is a new bronze statue, a replica of the "Discobolus" of the Vatican. A handsome pedestal of Italian marble completes the gift, which came from E. W. Longfellow '65, a nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59. The arch at the entrance of Appleton Chapel has been adorned with a small fragment of an archway from St. Saviour's Church in Southwark, England, in which John Harvard was baptized...