Word: gift
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...last meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences the Toppan Prize of $150, the gift of Robert Noxon Toppan '58, of Cambridge, was awarded for 1915-1916 to Clarence Henry Haring '07, Ph. D. '16, for an essay entitled, "Trade and navigation Between Spain and the Indies Under the Hapsburgs." The judges were Professor Guy S. Ford of the University of Minnesota and Professor William MacDonald of Brown University...
...communication asks that students using the library be more careful where they throw cigarette stubs and refrain from throwing ink on the marble floors. The Widener Library is considered the finest college library in America, and the easiest way undergraduates can show their appreciation of this magnificent gift is to help preserve its beauties instead of trying to deface the interior decorations. In many German cities the scattering of papers or other refuse in public parks is punishable by a fine and even imprisonment. Such measures are obviously not necessary to impress upon the gentlemanly undergraduates of Harvard the untidy...
...corner of College and Wall streets. This building, to be completed next year, will provide a suitable administrative headquarters for the school, rooms for teaching and practice and for the important library of manuscripts and, books and also a much-needed auditorium of moderate size. The building is the gift of the wife and daughter of the late Albert A. Sprague, Yale '59. The headquarters of the music school for the present year will be in the building formerly occupied by the Anderson Gymnasium on York street, between Elm and Wall streets...
...rebuilding of the Newberry organ, made possible by a gift of $25,000 by Truman Newberry, Yale 1885 S., John S. Newberry, Yale '06, and their sister, will be concluded during the present fall...
...Gifts amounting to $155,510 were accepted, the largest being $111,370 from the estate of Gordon McKay. Another important gift was from the estate of Samuel C. Cobb, $30,000, on account of one-fifth part of the residuum of his estate "to be kept as a fund, but not requiring it to be invested as a special fund, of which the income only shall be used and applied towards the payment of the college dues of students in that university during their freshman and sophomore years, in such manner and for such deserving students as the faculty shall...