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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...
...from the 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...
...estimated cost of the boat house is $25,000, and this sum a committee of the members of the New York Harvard Club are endeavoring to raise. It is hoped that the Boston graduates will contribute an equal amount toward the field improvements. Some $12,000 of the necessary $25,000 has already been raised toward the boat house without any general appeal...
...comfort and welfare of the sick, and where he can equally have his own medical adviser and a special nurse as well if required, paying, in addition to the fees of the physician and the nurse, as he would pay them in his own rooms, a certain sum to the college house as he would pay for a room in a private hospital; the advantage over a private hospital being that the college house will be a part of and under the control of the University, and an institution in which he has a personal interest...
...accomplishment indefinitely, and would deprive the infirmary of the general and sustained interest in its helpful work which would accrue from a large number of contributors. It is earnestly to be hoped therefore that both individual and concerted action may be taken by students and graduates to procure the sum, estimated at $50,000, necessary to build, equip and partially endow the Harvard Infirmary...