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...despatches, Mr. Huntington is generally defined in two words- "California Capitalist." Sometimes the newspapers add that he owns the largest private library in the world, and that, since he is giving it to the U. S., he is making the most important gift on record by a citizen to his government. Such statements, facts, as these, evoke little personal image, for capitalists may or may not cultivate the lore of what they...
...entire responsibility is with the manager. An experienced manager, with ample facilities at his disposal, could run a college dining-room which would offer a varied diet, without a financial loss. It requires a great gift to arrange a menu to please the critical palates of college men, but it can be done, granting that the clientele will occasionally eat elsewhere for the sake of change. To appoint a dining-room so that it will be physically attractive, which is a very heavy factor in determining the eating preference of people, is another great task that will confront...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Philadelphia publisher (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) : "Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.) announced that I had promised it a pipe organ for its chapel, and a swimming pool. At Portland, Me., my birthplace, the municipal organ is a gift from me (TIME, July 19) in memory of the man for whom I am named, Hermann Kotzschmar, onetime bandleader of Dresden, Germany, church organist in Portland 1849-1909. A few years ago Bowdoin College conferred upon me an honorary degree...
...Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History was founded in 1805 by a $30,000 gift jointly provided for Harvard by a number of friends of the college W. D. Peck '82 was chosen by the subscribers as the first Professor and he served under this foundation until...
...formally organized until some years later: funds were lacking for its efficient functioning although in 1813 Samuel Parkman of Boston, a wealthy and public spirited merchant conveyed to the Collage a township of land in Maine "for the support of a Professor in Theology." The benefits of this gift were great in prospect, but it was of he immediate help to the department...