Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dartmouth College has received a gift of $100,000 for the erection of a building which in the words of the donor, Mr. W. F. Robinson, of Boston, will "present a strong counterpoise to athleticism on the one hand and to social cliques on the other...
...most important part of the gift is the great collection of photographs, about 5000 in number, of practically all the tribes of the Philippines. The pictures which were recently reproduced in the National Geographic Magazine, were taken with especial attention to ethnographic detail and are invaluable for scientific purposes...
...gift to the Museum of Comparative Zoology includes a series of bird-skins shells, and other marine specimens for research study...
...Harvard playwrights -- their name is legion!" So remarked a New York manager a New days ago on being told of the production of "If You're Only Human" at the Plymouth Theatre, Boston; well might he have added, had he been endowed with the gift of prophecy, that this offering of the newest of our writers for the stage would rank with the best of the Cambridge dramatic output...
This would no doubt seem very strange doctrine to many prospective benefactors of Harvard College today; and it is certain that it would have seemed incredible to the early donors. To look upon a gift under any circumstances as a burden seems at first thought an anomaly. But gradually it is coming to be recognized more and more clearly that the wisest of all gifts to educational institutions are those given unrestricted and "without strings." Of course, if a man is to choose between perpetuating his name by erecting an expensive mausoleum and by founding in perpetuum a series...