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This dormitory was made possible in large measure by the gift of H. S. Vanderbilt '07. It will be located in Boston, and will accommodate 250 students. It is so designed, however, that should it become desirable in the future, additions may be made which will increase its capacity to 400. There will be, in connection with the building, a large dining room which will seat 250 persons at a time. Work has been progressing steadily all winter, and the building should easily be finished by the autumn...
...believe you should know of an instance which has transgressed your original pur pose. A busy, practical friend whom I esteem, had long since ceased to satisfy me that he still existed on this mundane sphere. But you induced me to take advantage of the offer to make a gift of TIME. So I sent you the name of my esteemed friend. I had almost forgotten the effect of your persuasiveness, until I received a letter the other day. TIME had resurrected the lost. Allow me to quote from the letter of my friend : . . . "I get a great deal...
...carillon is the gift of Richard Teller Crane Jr., in memory of his father, founder of the potent Crane Co. (plumbing fixtures). Last week the bells were tested in London and found to be in perfect harmony with a 53-bell carillon which will soon ring from the Canadian houses of Parliament at Ottawa. The St. Chrysostom bells will be operated by electro-pneumatic machinery and can be played by telegraph from a distance of 3,000 miles. The keyboard has a touch as delicate as a piano...
...Manhattan, the carilloneur having no electro-pneumatic machinery, tugged at levers which rang nine-ton bells and nine-pound bells, waking idlers from their Sunday morning sleep. As everyone knows, these are the bells of the largest carillon in the U. S.?John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s gift to the Park Avenue Baptist Church (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925). To Messrs. Rockefeller and Crane, carillons "sing of eternity and fill the earth with gladsome song"; to jaded sleepyheads, they are no better than an early morning coal delivery...
...York, N. Y., February 4 Charles H. Sabin, president of The Boy's Club of New York, yesterday announced a gift of $6,000 from members of the Harvard Club of New York for the furnishing of one of the rooms in the new branch of The Boys Club now in process of construction at 321 East 111th Street. The room has been given in memory of the late Evert Jansen Wendell of the class of 1882 at Harvard University who was a prominent track athlete and who spent most of his life in work among boys. The late...