Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After the speeches Professor Hollis announced that Mr. Augustus Hemenway had written to him, saying that $10,000 would be forthcoming toward the furnishing of the club. Mr. J. H. Hyde '98, of New York, has given $20,000 toward a library...
...Harriet L. Hemenway, wife of Augustus Hemenway, who gave the Harvard Gymnasium, is the donor of the $50,000 for the Radcliffe Gymnasium which is now being built on Mason street. Miss Marian Hovey has also given more than the needed money for apparatus, and has allotted several thousand dollars of the money left at her disposal by Mrs. Mary Hemenway, mother of Augustus Hemenway, for the swimming tank in the gymnasium. The surplus will be held as a fund for obtaining other apparatus in the future...
...botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist and the founder of the present methods of botanical classification, Joseph Tournefort and Augustus P. de Candolle, both famous botanists. The collection was begun by Professor Asa Gray and carried on by his wife after his death. It is mounted in four volumes...
...November of 1896 the Committee of the Board of Overseers to whom these communications were referred, Robert S. Peabody '62, Augustus Hemenway '75, and George B. Shattuck '63, reported to the Board wherein they thought the objections made by the Corporation were unsound. To this report a plan for college buildings and grounds was attached as an explanatory suggestion. A summary of a number of the proposals made in this report, and a cut of a portion of the plan will appear in Wednesday's CRIMSON...
...Tappan prize on one hundred and fifty dollars for an essay in Political Economy has been awarded to Clyde Augustus Duniway, at present Assistant Professor of History in Leland Stanford University...