Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Class of 1919, following the example set by the Class of 1918 a year ago, has decided to make a gift to the University in the form of a scholarship. Last year's gift was the sun dial between Smith and Standish Halls...
...executive board of 1919, after a complete discussion of the matter last spring, determined to continue the precedent set by the present Junior Class of making a gift to the University. It was decided that there were too few material gifts which would be suitable to continue this custom for many years, so that when a scholarship was suggested the executive board decided upon this plan as the wisest. It felt that it would thus establish a precedent in the power of succeeding classes to continue, and which would at the same time do some definite good...
...soon as the gift was decided upon letters were written to the headmasters of the various preparatory schools in which they were asked to suggest candidates for the scholarship. The plans were made so late in the spring, however, that this was done imperfectly. Another reason for awarding the scholarship at so late a date this fall is on ac- count of the necessary delay that occured before it was passed on by the Administrative Board on Scholarships...
...This gift, which is to be known as the Class Memorial Scholarship, is by a large margin the largest scholarship given any Freshman. The dividing of the sum into two scholarships has been advocated, but this, it was thought, would defeat the purpose of the gift, which is meant to be desirable not only for the sake of the money but for the honor that goes with...
...Upon this anniversary we are gathered here to commemorate the birth of him, to whom more than to any other man we owe our life within this University. Three hundred and nine years ago John Harvard was born, the man whose gift was later to bring into being Harvard College. Today we do honor to him, and to this statue we turn in tender gratitude...