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Herodotus first speaks of Solon, regarding him as a law giver only. Thucydides makes no mention of him but Lycias does. Xenophon knows him as a philosopher. Isocrates is the first to call him the founder of the democracy, and one of the seven wise men. Plato speaks of him as the grandest of poets, and refers to his great epic. aeschines thinks of him as the lawgiver. Demosthenes and Aristotle both reverence him for his deeds for the state...
...article on "The New Archaeological Department" in the issue of the CRIMSON for Saturday, December 20, 1890. by a typographical error Mrs. Shaw is printed for Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw. the giver of the William Thaw Fellowship to the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology...
...October number of the Harvard University Bulletin opens with the official records of the corporation in which all appointments and gifts of the University are recorded. The latter vary in importance from Mr. Henry L. Higginson's "Soldier's Field" to the receipt from an anonymous giver of $5 for the use of the college, which was "gratefully accepted." The generosity of the various benefactors of Harvard is evident in the numerous gifts to the Herbarium, to the Draper Memorial fund at the Observatory, to the Library etc. Other gifts include $4,300 to fit up a psychological laboratory...
...donor of this magnificent gift is already well known to the public as a generous and public-spirited man. He is especially respected by Harvard men as a liberal giver in response to appeals from the university. Year after year he has made generous bequests in an unobtrusive way, until, even before his last gift, he stood among the first of Harvard's benefactors. Now he has shown his loyalty to the students' interests in a way that must make every man personally grateful. Tonight Harvard men will have an opportunity to make his acquaintance. No true son of Harvard...
...Dental School celebrated last March by public addresses and a dinner, the 20th anniversary of the first Commencement of the school. The endowment fund has been increased by an anonymous gift of $5,000, to which the giver has since added another $1,000. This is the only large gift which the school has received, and for the first time in its history it has a favorable balance with the college treasurer, its funds being $8,155 85 and its indebtedness to the general treasury...