Word: gift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...making this gift, Dr. Oliver made only two stipulations: first, that the University should pay him during his lifetime such sums as his modest wants required; second, that the name of the donor of the gift should be kept secret during his lifetime...
...most interesting gift in the form of a scrap-book has recently been received by Widener Library from Charles C. Read '64. In this volume he kept a record of his undergraduate days by clippings from the Boston Evening Transcript, programs, official notices, invitations and other mementos. Many crew regatta programs are pasted throughout the scrap-book. One is of particular interest as it tells of the race in which crimson was first taken as the Harvard color. In another place a long clipping from the Transcript tells of the visit to this country of "Albert of Belgium," now King...
...gift of $100,000 has been left to the University in the will of Hervey Edward Wetzel '11 of Detroit, Michigan. This is to be expended "for a few important works of art for the Fogg Museum," under the direction of three members of the Department of Fine Arts;--Edward W. Forbes '95, Dr. Denman W. Ross '75, and Arthur Pope...
Although modestly worded, this is probably the most important single gift that the Fogg Museum has ever received, for the bequest also include half of Mr. Wetzel's notable collection of the art of the near East and Orient. Another advantage is the fact that the principal of the gift may be expended as well as the interest...
...receipt of a gift of $10,000 from the estate of Samuel Abbott Green has been announced by the treasurer of the University. This sum is to be used for two scholarships of $5000 each, the income of which is to be applied for the benefit of "students of the College who prepared at Lawrence Academy, Groton...