Word: mcgraw
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thirty eight feet high. The other rooms and the stacks are proportionately large. There will be room for nearly 400,000 volumes. The entire building will be finished inside with marble, iron and glass so as to be perfectly fireproof. The library is built as a memorial to Jennie McGraw-Fiske...
...Henry W. Sage, the princely patron or Cornell University, has announced a gift of $300,000 for the endowment of the library, and his purpose to make good the cost of the library building, amounting to $200000, in case the University loses the McGraw-Fiske suit...
Cornell University has filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court from the recent decision of the Court of Appeals forfeiting the McGraw bequest of $1, 500, 000. The case will be brought in October, 1889. The ground of the appeal is stated to be that the State of New York holds in trust the proceeds upon which the university was founded, and which were given by the nation to the state. If this is the case, the university is not absolute owner of the property, but merely a beneficiary, and the charter limit of $3, 000, 000 will...
...trustees of Cornell University, at their last meeting, have set apart, from the sum given in 1872 by the Hon. Ezra Cornell, John McGraw, Esq., the Hon. Henry W. Sage, the Hon. Hiram Sibley and Andrew D. White, a sum amounting to $155,000 for the establishment of scholarships and fellowships to aid meritorious students, both male and female, in the prosecution of their studies at that university. At the same meeting they also set apart, from the fund contributed by the Hon. Henry W. Sage for the superior education of women, the sum of $50,000 for the establishment...
...memorial windows to Mr. Cornell, Mr. McGraw and Mr. Fiske have just been received and will be set up in the new memorial chapel of Cornell University before commencement...