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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strongly hinted that the charitable work done by that body in the last fifty years has done more harm than good-that the whole thing is a huge failure. This comes from the injudicious habit of giving alms. Now the poor are not a class, they are a thousand classes; hitherto people have failed to recognize this and as a result have been deluded by the idea that the real work of charity was to give alms, to furnish work, or to improve the homes of the poor. The truth is that the almsgiver only reaches people who will...
...Yale library has received a gift of ten thousand dollars by the will of Mr. George Gabriel, a resident of New Haven. The Theological school received five thousand from the same source...
...annual reunion and dinner of the Brown University club in New York last Friday evening it was announced that a movement is on foot to raise one hundred thousand dollars for the university. Thirty-five thousand has already been pledged, and it is expected that the remainder will be raised in a short time. The fund will known as the Professor Lincoln fund, Professor Lincoln being the oldest member of the faculty...
...lack of a Semitic museum in Harvard-a lack that some of us have long felt-now seems likely to be supplied. A beginning has been made by the generous gift of ten thousand dollars by Mr. Jacob Schiff of New York; we may hope that this gift will be followed by others till a sufficient sum shall have been raised to tablish a museum on a satisfactory basis...
...Bishop of Richmond recently preached a sermon on football, before a congregation of more than a thousand persons, at St. John's church, Bedford, England...