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...remainder of the report is devoted to accounts of the other significant events of the past year. The generosity of the friends of the University is shown by the number and size of gifts, yet the needs of various departments are very pressing. The importance of the University Press in relation to the works of the scholars of the University is emphasized, and the gift of the Widener Library is at once a cause for unstinted gratitude and unreserved congratulation...
...Commons, Yale is contemplating a centre more like the famous Oxford Union than any yet built; the designation differs with the college, but nearly every institution either already has or hopes soon to have a social centre. To supplement her Commons, Dartmouth is soon to have Robinson Hall, the gift of Mr. Wallace T. Robinson, of Boston, which will be unique among college social centres in that its purpose is primarily to afford a home for all undergraduate non-athletic interests. It is to be a handsome two and a half story building of brick and lime-stone, situated...
...Gift to Boat Clubs...
...establishment of the Harvard University Press recalls the fact that the first printing press in America, north of Mexico, and for many years the only one in British America, was set up at Harvard College in 1639. It was the gift of Joseph Glover and "some gentlemen of Amsterdam," and was set up by Stephen Daye, the printer who had been brought over for the purpose by Glover. President Dunster married Mrs. Glover, and the press was set up in his house, where it remained until...
...sheets. The following year, an anonymous donation of $25,000 was used for the purpose of building the southwest wing to provide for the library and administrative offices. In the same year, George Robert White made possible the rebuilding of the laboratories in the northwest wing by a gift of $31,500. When the new facade is finished, the whole building except the central portion will have been reconstructed, and it is hoped that funds may be obtained in the near future for the improvement of this part as well...