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There are now on exhibition in the Treasure Room at the Widener Library 1593 different copies of Saint Thomas a Kempis' "Imitation of Christ". This remarkable collection which surpasses in size and quality anything of its kind in the world today, is the gift of Mr. James Byrne '77 of New York, a member of the Corporation. It originally belonged to Copinger, the English bibliographer...
...whole plan for improvements is consistent with the spirit of Major Higginson's gift in promoting exercise for as many men as possible and will be appreciated by the entire University...
...average Technology student is too prone to accept hearsay evidence alone without troubling to ascertain the truth for himself. Very few seem to take into consideration the fact that Harvard has given timely aid to Institute activities on several occasions. An example of this is the recent gift by Harvard of a shell for the use of our crews. To the uninitiated this may seem a trivial matter, but to Institute oarsmen, after being compelled to work for years with inadequate equipment, such a gift appears to be little short of a God-send. And then, again, Harvard has frequently...
Bequests to various institutions, including Colby, on condition that they have no football teams are examples of gifts carrying with them provisos which restrict their usefulness. In this case rejection is easy, but it is often more difficult to balance good against evil. Mr. Wilson, as president of Princeton, fought a hard fight before persuading the trustees to reject a gift offered on condition that certain radical changes be made in the educational methods. Museums of art are often faced with the same difficulty when individuals donate their valuable though heterogeneous collections with the proviso that the whole be kept...
Universities and museums, being generally beggars, cannot generally look the gift horse in the mouth, and are always eager anyway to observe their donors, wishes. But they could often use gifts better, and their gratitude would be deeper and more frequent, if their benefactors would breathe their wishes instead of hammering them into the contract...