Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences held last Tuesday it was voted that the rules for the Toppan Prize be amended by substituting for the first paragraph of the present announcement the following: This prize, the gift of Robert Noxon Toppan, of Cambridge, of the Class of 1858, is awarded in two parts. (1) An annual prize of one hundred dollars is offered for the best doctoral thesis of the year upon a subject in Political Science. In making the award, emphasis will be laid upon literary excellence. (2) A prize of two hundred dollars is offered...
...Palmer Memorial Stadium was built two years ago, being formally opened at the Princeton-Dartmouth football game of 1914. The concrete work alone was done at a cost of $300,000, the gift of Edgar Palmer of the class...
Another valuable gift is that of the "Med. Fac." catalogue for 1833, presented by Edward T. Fisher '56. The "Med. Fac." issued only five catalogues: the club now possesses all of these--something which can be claimed by but few institutions or individuals...
...Ireland's gift to Widener is a letter Stevenson wrote her husband in reply to a note informing Stevenson of the source of some allusions in "A Gossip on Romance," a magazine article of 1883 written by the English literary man on his dim recollections of some stories his parents read to him when a boy. The third point he makes is more generally interesting and amusing than the first two. The point of the letter is that Mr. Ireland had, as he himself declared, addressed the epistle with "inspired stupidity" to "Mr. R. L. Stephenson." The letter reads...
...gift of Robert Louis Stevenson mementos just acquired by the Widener Library, an addition of unusual interest and value has been made to what is already one of the most valuable collections of old manuscripts, first editions, personal letters, and relics of great authors in this country. Too little attention is paid by undergraduates to these important and rare collections, which, despite the fact that they are kept in glass cases, are readily accessible for study and inspection by those who are sufficiently interested to take the pains to see them...