Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class of 1918 in recognition of its novel position in the University and in appreciation of the opportunities afforded by the Freshman Dormitories, have appropriated a portion of the class funds for a gift to the University. The gift is in the form of a sun-dial pedestal which is being erected in back of Smith Halls on the path to Standish. The dedication will take, place next week and the entire class is to be present. The firm of architects, Coolidge and Shatuck, is the same which made the plans for the three dormitories...
...class of 1918 deserves the highest commendation for the spirit it has shown in presenting a sun-dial to the University to be erected near the Freshman dormitories. The gift is made in recognition of the novel position of the class as the first to occupy the new dormitories; and it shows that the members appreciate the care and expenditure which has gone into giving them their exceptional opportunities for friendships and class solidarity...
...anonymous gift of ten elms, which are to be placed in the Yard during October has just been announced. The trees, which were given by a graduate of the University, are unusually large, being from fifteen to twenty inches in diameter. The eighty-seven red oaks and elms which were planted about the grounds last spring are all in excellent condition and the older trees have been carefully pruned and sprayed...
...rebuilt, the Herbarium consists of the Kidder wing, at the rear, built in 1910 through the liberality of N. T. Kedder of Milton, and containing a considerable part of the plant collection; the Library wing, the gift of Dr. G. G. Kennedy of Milton, built in 1911 and including the library and administrative offices; the G. R. White laboratories of systematic botany, forming a wing extending toward the conservatories and containing the Harvard and Radcliffe laboratories; and the central section described above...
Among the poems, the most noteworthy is "Belgium," the McKim Garrison prize poem by Mr. T. Nelson, who shows clever craftsmanship, fine feeling effectively restrained, and a gift for poetic expression. Mr. K. A. Robinson's "Ballad of Famous Princes," is a vigorous poem, pleasingly sonorous, well rounded off in thought and form. Mr. G. H. Code's "Lusitania" is an appropriate dirge, too quiet for the subject, but dingified and earnest. There are three smoothly adequate descriptive lyrics: Mr. H. Hendrson's "The Twllight Mourner," on rural evening and the whip-poor-will; Mr. R. S. Mitchell's "Threnody...