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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Botany, Dedrology, Forestry, Horticulture, Geography, and related subjects. In addition to this, Professor Sargent has received vouchers to the amount of $5453.17 for the recent purchases of books which have been made for the library. The Arboretum has also received from Mr. John L. Gardner for current expenses the sum of $2000, the second installment of his subscription...
...Medical School has also received from Miss Lucy Ellis the sum of $2000 for current expenses during the present year...
...prize has been added to the list of those already offered by the University which is intended to encourage men to prepare themselves for journalism. Mr. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald offered the University the sum of $1000 to establish a prize for "the best essay in English prose upon some subject of American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest." The gift was gratefully accepted on the terms named in Mr. Bennett's letter which were briefly these: That the sum be kept invested and the interest there of be given annually...
...long been a prominent member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. He gave largely to the Arnold Arboretum, the greatest of his gifts being $25,000, which he gave only last year for a new building. He also gave largely to the Botanic Gardens, giving in 1884 the sum of $1600 and the next year $5000. In 1887 he gave $10,000 for the Physical Laboratory and as much more to the Medical School. He has in all given the University over $60,000 in the last ten years. In 1888 Mr. Ames succeeded Francis Parkman as a Fellow...
...sum of fifty dollars which was recently presented to the Freshman Class by the Graduate Athletic Committee has been given to the Freshman crew...