Word: joanna
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...report of Mrs. Agassiz, the president, gives a brief resume of the work accomplished since the founding of the college, and of the aims and purposes of the institution. In closing her report she speaks of a scholarship, recently endowed, in the name of Joanna Hoar, probably by one of her descendants, though the gift was anonymous...
...increase in gifts to the institution since it became a college and received a distinctive name is marked. Besides the gift in memory of Joanna Hoar, already mentioned, the college has also received funds to establish the Agnes Irwin Scholarship, contributed by about seven hundred women who had been under the care of the present Dean of Radcliffe, during her life in Philadelphia. Another scholarship has been founded by Mrs. Josiah M. Fiske, of New York City, in memory of her husband. Ninety-seven thousand dollars have been received by the treasurer in cash and securities from the estate...