Word: mcgraw
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...progress, and especially of the possibilities of the library, which has already attracted much attention, and which probably has the largest endowment of any similar institution in the world. The one person above all others to whose munificence these possibilities are due is the late Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske. As a fitting resting-place for her remains, those of her father and of Ezra Cornell, there will be erected a memorial chapel adjoining Sage Chapel. The basement will be a vault for the reception of bodies, and will be entirely without ornament; the upper part will be elaborately finished. Part...
...endowment has been increased during the year, by the will of Mrs. Jennie McGraw-Fiske, nearly a million dollars. $45,000 provides for a cottage hospital, for the use of any students who may fall seriously ill during their stay in college; the income of $50,000 is to be applied to the care of the main college building, which was presented to the university by Mrs. Fiske's father; the residue of her gift is to be devoted to the maintenance and care of the university library, which already ranks third in size and importance among the university libraries...
...Thomas McGraw, of Poughkeepsie, has pledged $50,000 for the permanent endowment of the president's chair at Amherst...