Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Three Generations looked to him as to a Benefactor, a Friend, a Father. His Precept was glorified by his Example...
...bequeathed by individuals singly; men with means, who wish to build a monument either to themselves, or some other, prefer, and naturally prefer, to give all, rather than to have their partial contributions merged unidentified in a general subscription. It is in no way improbable, therefore, that some benefactor may present himself, or be found, who, by endowing the University Club, will associate his name, or that of another, permanently with Harvard, and will secure to an extent possible by no other gift the gratitude of all Harvard's alumni and students during a long future. Certainly the recent experience...
...encouragement we would state that this very winter the University of Pennsylvania has had given to it by a single benefactor a club-house-Houston Hall-similar in most respects to that proposed for Harvard, and costing over $150,000, as a memorial to a student who died in college. We learn, too, that another University has been promised a similar building...
...believe, therefore, that by proper search and presentation of the plan, some benefactor can be found to whom this most popular of objects will appeal-one who, like Mr. Hemenway, who gave the Gymnasium, or Mr. Higginson, who gave the Soldier's Field, will desire to witness during his lifetime the enjoyment of his generosity by others. As the numbers at Harvard are greater than at any other American university, so is the need greater for an institution which shall unite the various human interests of the students and establish closer relations between the alumni and Alma Mater...
During the recess it was announced that through the generosity of a prominent merchant of Boston, whose name is not made known, a chair of comparative pathology is to be founded at the Medical School. The benefactor advances $100,000 for the endowment of the chair. This will be the first establishment of a professorship of comparative pathology in any American university...