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...first building constructed was financed by the alumni fund, while the "tower building" was built from the gift of an anonymous donor, who has also furnished the money for the other two buildings now under construction. The entire system of buildings will be interrelated, and heated by the same plant. Near the centre of the unit will be two dining halls, where students may eat without having to go away from the dormitory grounds...
...recent meeting of the Board of Overseers, gifts were announced to the amount of $65,717.12, of which the largest gift was $50,000 from the estate of Edward Wheelwright, this being the first payment which Harvard has received as one of the residuary legatees. Under the terms of the will, this money is given to Harvard College without restriction of the use to be made thereof, except that it shall be used for college purposes rather than for the professional schools...
...Fogg Art Museum has recently made several important acquisitions by gift and loan which are now on exhibition in the print-room. These include a drawing by the sixteenth century German master Altdorfer, and an etching by Hirschvogel, representing a man in armor. The latter is a very beautiful impression of an excessively rare print. There is no record of its ever having appeared before at a public sale, and no impression of it exists in the British Museum...
Princeton University has recently received, as a gift from an alumnus, a very valuable and complete statistical library which has been in the process of collection since 1880, and consists of the financial reports and statements of railroads and industrial corporations in the United States extending from 1839 to the present time. The collection consists of 5,000 books, 13,000 pamphlets, 39,000 bond and stock circulars, and news clippings mounted on some 70,000 separate sheets. The material is indexed and classified, and has been installed in a separate room in the University Library Building at Princeton...
...Treasurer of the College announced at a recent meeting of the Corporation the receipt of gifts amounting to $155,601.74. This sum includes certain of the gifts announced by the President on Commencement Day, i.e. the gift of the class of 1890 of $80,000. Among the larger new gifts and bequests is $25,000 from the estate of William Endicott '87, the income to be used for the purposes of the Cancer Commission of the University; $23,250 from the estate of Julia M. Moseley, also for the work of the Cancer Commission in the City of Boston...