Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Gift to Boat Clubs...
...establishment of the Harvard University Press recalls the fact that the first printing press in America, north of Mexico, and for many years the only one in British America, was set up at Harvard College in 1639. It was the gift of Joseph Glover and "some gentlemen of Amsterdam," and was set up by Stephen Daye, the printer who had been brought over for the purpose by Glover. President Dunster married Mrs. Glover, and the press was set up in his house, where it remained until...
...Gray Herbarium is now nearing completion, and will be completely finished about the middle of April. This constitutes a portion of the reconstruction which the Herbarium has been undergoing within the past few years $10,000 was provided for the facade by an anonymous friend, being the fourth recent gift to the institution...
...sheets. The following year, an anonymous donation of $25,000 was used for the purpose of building the southwest wing to provide for the library and administrative offices. In the same year, George Robert White made possible the rebuilding of the laboratories in the northwest wing by a gift of $31,500. When the new facade is finished, the whole building except the central portion will have been reconstructed, and it is hoped that funds may be obtained in the near future for the improvement of this part as well...
Coincident with the announcement on Monday morning of the recent gift to the University of ten thousand dollars, donated to encourage psychical research, there appeared in the New York Sun a long account of the communications which Professor Hyslop, a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, claims to have had from the late Professor William James. To the layman the account is fantastic and puzzling: the story of how Professor Hyslop, through the medium of a fifteen-year old boy, held conversations on several different occasions with the "spirit" of Professor James, which proved to the former...