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...goal set was $5000. The sum received represents not only an over subscription of more than 20 per cent but also, as far as can be discovered, the largest single subscription of any educational institution in the country. It is Harvard's share of the $186,000, the total gift of American colleges and universities...
...Unknown Gift Swells Total...
...total contribution of the University, it was announced, is being doubled by the gift of a New York foundation of Unknown name. A check for $4,500 has been in the hands of the New York office of the Student Friendship Fund for some time, the remainder will be paid over shortly. A special fund, to be privately subscribed, will soon be raised to cover the expenses of the drive. These expenses include the cost of the other literature, and the dinner given to the collectors to explain the mechanism of the drive...
...show that a beautiful shrine could be made out of the interior, but the objection is that the building would still be known only as Holden Chapel. The chief objections to a new church are the cost, involving delay, and the fact that Appleton Chapel was built from the gift of a Harvard graduate and therefore is a trust which must be perpetuated. The second objection can be nullified by having a chapel within the church to be used for morning services and to be called 'Appleton Chapel...
...rangefinders. Under his direction were built the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim to fame is probably the establishment, through a gift of $500,000, of the Engineering Foundation, a joint research agency of the "big four" national engineering societies?civil, mechanical, electrical, mining-and-metallurgical...