Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gift of these American mothers, whose heart thus goes to France, is an amazing thing. France is not their country. As the world goes, they are not compelled to make a sacrifice for her. But they make it, for very much the same reason that Richard Hall went to France because they "want the reassurance" of having met a world-crisis, a mighty and commanding test of right and wrong, even with the fullest sacrifice, if necessary, that a mother could offer. As Christmas comes on, we fancy that many a fire will be lighted in many an American fireplace...
...Widener Library at a reception to be held in that room this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge '87, director of the University Library, and C. A. Coolidge, Jr., '17, president of the Student Council, will also speak. William Farnsworth '77 and Mrs. Farnsworth, whose gift the room is, will be present at the opening exercises as will the French consul in Boston, M. J. C. Joseph Flamand, Representatives from the various activities in the University have been asked to attend the dedication...
...most unusual features of the Widener Library is the new Farnsworth Room, which is to be opened at three o'clock this afternoon. It is a gift in memory of Henry Weston Farnsworth, a graduate of the University in 1912, who met death last year in the Foreign Legion. This is the first time that Harvard has honored individually any one of her sons who have lost their lives in the war. The Farnsworth Room will take its place with the tablet in the Union, Memorial Hall, and Soldiers Field, tributes to the heroism of Harvard graduates...
...Class desire on the part of the result of the desire on the part of the present Sophomore Class to continue the custom establishment by the Class of 1918 of presenting the University with a gift at the end of the Freshman year. At the same time, the executive board of the class wished to have the gift of such a nature that it would form a worthy precedent for other classes to continue. The sophomores were able to make this gift this year from a surplus in the class treasury after the collections had been made...
...spirit of the Class of 1919 in establishing a scholarship is worthy of the highest praise. However much in after life a class may be able to help the University which did so much for it, no gift can have the peculiar significance of one presented by undergraduates. College students as a rule are not burdened with too much money and their generosity forms a very vital sacrifice. The Class of 1918 was thoughtful in its gift of a sun dial. But more valuable than sun dials, or any other concrete work of art, is an aid which will bring...