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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard College at the beginning of President Eliot's administration," says the writer, "must have presented a rather inferior appearance, as judged by the buildings. During the last thirteen years about two million dollars have been used for building purposes. Some of the oldest halls have Revolutionary memories, but have not attractive exteriors. The lecture system so largely used, in part even in Mathematics, of course offers temptation to cramming; and that very much of this is done is not denied; but this is not regarded as wholly evil even by so competent a judge as the late Professor Jevons...
...will of the late Henry Seybert of Philadelphia gives almost his entire estato, amounting to over one million dollars, to educational and charitable institutions...
...recent dinner of Williams College Alumni, President Carter reported that the college never was more deserving of affection than now. "There are," he said, "three Yale men, two Harvard men, and one Amherst man now in the faculty, and I could show you in five minutes where half a million could be placed and not be noticed. We expect $50,000 from the Clarke estate and shall raise each professor's salary $300 next commencement. We are the only college which has prayers twice a day, and we want to keep it a Christian nursery...
Cornell is probably the richest college in the country, excepting perhaps Columbia. The wealth of Cornell is nearly eight million dollars, "but," says the Boston Post, "it is an exceptional institution if it doesn't still want more...
...given $2,000,000 worth of property for the endowment of a college at New Orleans. In addition he has donated $400,000 to Harvard, $3,000,000 to Cornell, $2,000,000 to Boston University, and a number of sums ranging from $100,000 to half a million, to other institutions...