Word: perpetuum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gradually it is coming to be recognized more and more clearly that the wisest of all gifts to educational institutions are those given unrestricted and "without strings." Of course, if a man is to choose between perpetuating his name by erecting an expensive mausoleum and by founding in perpetuum a series of lectures on a contemporary problem, he is surely wiser to choose the latter. But wiser still is the man who, realizing that his own judgment as to the needs of the next century are not infallible, gives his gifts subject only to the careful distribution of those...