Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Habit," by Professor James, and "The Mistakes of College Life," by Dean Briggs, and "Master Fortissima." The Freshman cannot read this little book without gaining encouragement and new strength for the fight to maintain high ideals. There is no reason why the advice and inspiration contained in this generous gift should be limited to the Freshmen. anyone who buys the book will find something helpful, something which will make the world seem brighter and the daily tasks less arduous...
...poem will be distributed to all members of the Freshman Class today. Its contents are: "Soldiers Field," and address by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55; "Habit," by William James '69; "The Mistakes of College Life," by Dean Briggs, and "Mater Fortissima," the Phi Beta Kappa poem in 1903. This gift is made through the generosity of six anonymous donors who style themselves "Six Harvard Graduates...
...existence. Mr. Rothschild had spent thirty years in the collection of this library, and it occupied about 152 feet of shelves. It represents the volumes which Mr. Rothschild used in the preparation of his two books on Lincoln, "Honest Abe" and "Lincoln, Master of Men." The collection is the gift of his widow and will be placed in the American History Department, where it will be known as the Rothschild Lincoln Memorial Library...
...telegraph announces that Mr. Samuel Hill of Seattle has established an endowment for a chair of Russian language and literature at the University of Washington. Mr. Hill is one of the overseers of Harvard University, and a man of large fortune. His latest gift to education resembles those remarkable endowments established by the will of Cecil Rhodes...
...Hill's money will build in the city of Seattle, one of the three great Pacific ports from which American goods have started to flow to Asiatic Russia, an instrument through which Americans may come to have some grasp of the meaning and the soul of Russia. Such a gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens...