Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announced in the morning papers yesterday that another bequest had been made to Harvard by a Massachusetts merchant. The first mention of the fact was made at the dinner of the Harvard Club of Washington, Tuesday night, where it naturally created a great sensation. The amount of the bequest was stated as from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 dollars and the terms as absolutely unrestricted. The entire sum, was to be used as the authorities desired. Nobody at the dinner except the man who made the statement knew anything about the giver of this money and nobody here...
Athens has lately completed a magnificent academy building of Pentelican marble, costing a million dollars, given by a wealthy Greek merchant. The building has a well-equipped university with a complete school system...
...maintenance would be great. (c) The expenses of the U. S. are already very great. (d) Thus a part of the advantages resulting from our isolation would be forfeited. Century Magazine, April, 1889, vol. 37. (e) Money could be better spent in other ways. (1) in building a merchant marine. (2) subsidising steamships, Cong. Record...
...Francis Oliver Dorr, who has just died in Lansinburg, N. Y., was the last surviving member of the class of '25 of Harvard, as well as being the oldest living graduate of the Boston Latin School. He was born in Boston, in 1805, his father being a well-known merchant of this city. Among his class-mates at college were Frederic H. Hedge, Charles Francis Adams, Seth Ames, Samuel K. Lathrop, John L. Sibley, Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, Horatio Alger, and Sears Cook Walker...
Bowdoin - Thomas W. Keene in Merchant of Venice...