Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Another large bequest which is of great interest to the University is that of Miss Belinda Randall who left a large sum of money to be used for charitable purposes. Her executors, F. V. Balch '59 and William Minot '68, have placed $10,000 at the disposal of the Corporation for the building of a new dining hall, and further $10,000 toward the Phillips Brooks House, and a liberal endowment to Radcliffe...
...Lyman was always a man of public spirit and prominent in many charities in and about Boston. He spent much time and money in the building of Memorial Hall. In 1882, he was elected to Congress as an independent member and civil service reformer, but since 1886, he has been forced by illness to remain at his home in Brookline...
...corner of Market street, just this side of the abattoir, across the marshes to the northwest corner of Soldiers Field. As this would be a mile drive, over level marshes, with no cross roads, it would make an excellent speedway. The Legislature has just appropriated a sum of money for the general uses of the Park Commission, and some of it will probably be used for the construction of such a road. Considerable draining and grading would be involved in the work, and for several weeks nothing definite in regard to it will be decided...
...gift was accepted, and steps at once taken to raise money to put the field into condition for use. Plans were made looking eventually to the complete removal of all athletics to the field and to a complete unity in their arrangement. Football, baseball and track athletics were to be given complete accommodations, athletic buildings and a boathouse to be erected, the place to be beautified and the approach to it from the square to be made attractive by arrangements with the Park Commission...
...buildings to be erected, it is in the first place necessary to improve the present locker building and to build a cage for the use of the nine. It is hoped that enough money can be raised for a baseball pavilion to be placed behind the backstop, and also for small locker houses beneath the seats of the football field for the greater convenience of the players. The steel seats now on Holmes Field will be moved over during the summer to form the side seats for both fields, and money must be raised to build new steel ones...