Word: pensione
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...purpose of exemplifying what the present corporation, after careful consultation with the present professors and assistant professors, regard as a suitable system' of retiring allowances. In July, 1879, Mr. George Baty Blake sent one thousand dollars to the president and fellows, as a contribution towards a pension fund; and, in the spring of 1880, a distinguished graduate of the college informed the president that he intended to give ten thousand dollars for that general purpose whenever the corporation, after consultation with the professors, should have arrived at a system of administration which commended itself to their judgment. Since the action...