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...Germanic Museum has received as a gift from the city government of Nuremberg, Germany, a cast of the relief of the town weigher from the facade of the Wool Merchants' Guild Hall of that city. The cast, which is about six feet in height by eight feet wide, will be mounted on the west wall of the museum...
...College did not really come into existence before it received Harvard's bequest. It is sometimes said that John Harvard was not the true founder of the College that bears his name, and that he was but the first of its many benefactors. The importance of his gift, however, may be estimated from the fact that although the General Court had appropriated $2000 for the College, it was not paid, and the Court was so poor that it was forced to borrow $1000 of Harvard's bequest...
...Gift from F. W. Story '73 and W. E. Story...
...gift of the Associated Harvard Clubs of St. Louis, and has inscribed on its circumference "Charles William Eliot President of Harvard University." It was received last spring by the trustees of the Union and was placed in the Living Room during Class Day and Commencement. During the summer, it was taken down and has very recently been placed in its present position...
...that act he tied his name to the great love that lives in the human heart, the love of freedom. And when he came to die he started the great custom of giving his estate for the advancement of education. A stream of benefactions has followed that first gift of the sick young minister, a stream that is characteristic of the American belief in education. And a host of young men, more than one thousand every year, go out from this University that John Harvard founded, and which has existed by reason of the stream of benefactions which he started...