Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Widener Library has just acquired by gift four relics of Robert Louis Stevenson which are the finest of any in the entire Stevenson collection in the Treasure Room of Widener, and are probably among the most valuable in the country. Three of the acquisitions are the gift of Mrs. Hamilton Rice (Mrs. Widener), of Philadelphia, and the fourth was donated to the University by the wife of the late Frederick Guion Ireland '68, of New York. They number a copy of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" with a rhymed inscription; the corrected proof sheets of "Underwoods"; one of ten printed...
...many of the wounded find music one of the few forms of amusement open to them; and some of the seriously disfigured are attempting to learn to play as a future means of support when they leave the hospitals. This form of charity offers an opportunity for a gift of real consequence, which necessitates no privation on the part of the giver...
...Treasurer announced the receipt of $10,696.66 from the estate of Miss Rebecca W. Brown, to be added to the fund created by her brother, Dr. Buckminster Brown, for the foundation of a Professorship in Orthopedic Surgery. A gift of $2,200 was also reported by the Treasurer, given by the following graduates for improving the soil and for planting shrubs and vines in the Yard: F. L. Ames '54, O. Ames '86, W. C. Baylies '84, H. B. Cabot '83, W. Endicott '87, C. S. Fairchild '63, A. Hemenway '75, H. S. Hunnewell '75, W. Hunnewell...
...Senior class to complain of the comparative paucity of yesterday's Freshman collection. A gift is a gift, whether it is large or small. The rest of the college, however, have good cause to be dissatisfied, particularly with the attitude of the Freshmen. In the first place, there was an unusually small proportion of the class present. Again, this is practically the only existing Freshman tradition. Freshmen, here, lead an unusually unmolested existence. They are not called upon to wear caps, or to refrain from sitting on any sacred fence. Even this modest assessment is only in the nature...
...University baseball team opened the 1916 season by taking a brilliant 1-0 victory from the World's Champion Red Sox. The game was not a gift from magnanimous professionals; the Crimson players simply played better ball. The offensive work of the two nines was about on a par, but in the work in the field the University was decidedly superior, playing without error and pulling off three sensational double plays, the last of which effectually nipped the Red Sox' ninth inning rally and ended the game...