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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first floor there will be telephone booths for the use of patrons of the library, built in as part of the building. It may be said that the specifications for the contract call for the last word in library construction, and Harvard may well feel proud of its million-dollar library made possible through the munificence of Mrs George D. Widener of Philadelphia
...proper perspective, we hear little about the McKay endowment which made possible the continuance of that branch of the University as a strictly graduate department. Mr. McKay's original gift of $500,000 on the expiration of certain annuities will as a conservative estimate accumulate to twelve million dollars. It is now rendering an annual income of about $200,000. Mr. McKay's purpose, as stated in his will, was to further a study of all the sciences useful to man, and it seems probable that the generosity of his gift will render it possible to carry out his proposal...
...Boylston. At present two rooms on the first floor are used for research in physical chemistry. The Wolcott Gibbs Laboratory will be unique in this country, and in fact will be the foremost institution of its kind in the world. The proposed group of buildings, which will cost a million dollars, would give the University an unrivaled place in the field of chemical science...
...indeed a great tribute to the usefulness of an institution when a man who is not one of its alumni comes forward and contributes two and a half million dollars toward its support. Harvard has been watching with keen interest the steps that have led up to the final climax that makes possible the construction of the "New Technology" on this side of the Charles, and in the achievement of such unqualified success, our sister institution has our heartiest congratulations...
...college that needs nothing is a cheering spectacle in these days when every mail brings appeals for help in raising million-dollar subscriptions in order that other millions may be secured. The happy college is Bowdoin. Its President, William DeWitt Hyde, is quoted as saying, "Bowdoin now has a perfect plant, which with its endowment represents about $3,000,000, and at present the college needs nothing...