Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University crew management has announced the receipt of a gift of a new eight-oared shell from a graduate who wishes his name withheld. The shell will be designed by Tams, Lemoine & Crane, of New York, naval architects, and will be built by W. H. Davy, of Cambridge. On its arrival the shell will be tried out by the University crew...
Professor Palmer's long service as teacher has certainly merited the recognition which has been accorded it by the recent presentation of his portrait to the University. It is eminently fitting that this gift should have come from his pupils. In the forty years during which Professor Palmer has been connected with the University, he has guided and inspirated thousands, of students. As a philosopher, he has won wide respect and admiration; as a teacher, he has endeared himself to ten generations of undergraduates...
...Fogg Museum has recently received by gift a very fine impression of Whistler's etching, the "Furnace Nocturne." It is one of the Venice subjects, and belongs to the set known as the "Twenty-six Etchings" published in 1886. In the printing, Whistler produced a tone upon the plate, making it a "nocturne," one of the few plates treated in this way. This print is a distinct addition to the print collection of the Fogg Museum...
Through an additional gift of $100,000 by Mr. Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, Missouri, the erection of the proposed new Germanic Museum is assured. A site at the corner of Divinity avenue and Kirkland street has been decided upon, and plans for the building are now being drawn by a German architect, which, when completed, will be passed upon by the Corporation...
...form of a memorial to Burr, for as the first president of the Varsity Club he was largely responsible for its assumption of a useful and active position in connection with undergraduate athletics. The CRIMSON takes great pleasure in expressing to the donor of this most generous and timely gift the sincere and deserved gratitude of the undergraduate body...