Word: gifts
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...announcement that the generous offer made a year ago of a building for the Division of Music is at last made available through the equally generous gift of a maintenance fund, will bring general satisfaction. Music has long has a prominent and honorable place in Harvard University, and of late years it has received increasing attention and support. The prosperity of the Musical Clubs, the abundance of excellent recitals and symphonic concerts in Cambridge, the founding of the Harvard Opera Association and of the unique Harvard Musical Review, have all been recent developments of prime significance in the movement toward...
Following a gift of $10,000 made to the University last spring, a course of lectures on commercial organization has been established in the Graduate School of Business Administration. The donors of the gift are Jesse I. Straus '93, Percy S. Straus '97, and Herbert N. Straus '03, who established the fund as a memorial to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, who were drowned in the Titanic disaster...
...Thomas Hall Scholarship will be awarded for the first time this year. It was recently established under a gift of $10,000 from Mrs. Thomas Hall, in memory of her son, Thomas Hall, Jr., '93, the income to be awarded to a member or members of the Freshman class. Thomas Hall, Jr., was for several years an instructor in English in the University and a faithful and efficient adviser to Freshmen...
...gift of $10,000 has been made to the University by Mrs. Charles Osmyn Brewster, the income of which will be devoted to the interests of the Department of Music. The fund is presented in memory of Charles Osmyn Brewster...
...life-sized portrait of Dean Briggs is being painted by Edmund C. Tarbell, the eminent Boston artist. The portrait is a gift of the classes of 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915 to the University and will adorn the Living Room of the Union with the other portraits of famous Harvard men. The funds necessary to remunerate the artist for his services were subscribed entirely by members of the five classes mentioned and though a large sum of money was raised, it would not ordinarily be sufficient to pay the price for a work of this sort. The raising...