Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Williams College is soon to have one of the most up-to-date chemical laboratories in the country. It will replace the building which recently burned. The insurance of $50,000 on the old building, together with a recent gift of $40,000 by Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, will provide the means for a thoroughly fire-proof structure, the plans of which are being completed...
...Christiania, Norway, the largest and most enthusiastic meeting was at a banquet given by the Student's Association, of Norway to the Ford Peace Expedition. Addresses were given by members of the Ford Party and by the most prominent Norwegians. At the banquet a gift by Mr. Ford of $10,000 to the Student's Association of Norway was announced, which should go toward the erection of a new Association building. One of the Norwegian delegates, chosen as a member of the final neural conference to meet at the Hague, is a Harvard graduate...
Other announcements following the meeting include the gift of a bust of the late Professor Frederic Ward Putnam '62 to the Peabody Museum by Mr. J. B. Stetson...
...pipe organ is now being installed in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House, and will be ready for use in about a week. The organ, for which there has been a growing need for several years, is the gift of William Endicott '87, who has offered to meet the expenses of several changes made necessary by its erection...
...philosophy lecture-room students who have read Plato with delight. It will prepare for the courses in history students who have lived with the Romans elsewhere than in the Forum and on the battlefields of Gaul, who have known other Greeks than Homer's heroes. It will be the gift of a new literature to cherish while life lasts. And it will mean the true socialization of the classics. After all, there is no reason why it should not be as natural for an engineering student to read Sophocles as to read the Bible. To give engineering students Latin...