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Brown University has recently received a gift of $75,000 from John D. Rockefeller for the erection of a building similar to Brooks House...
...Field of Ethics" is published in accordance with the deed of gift of the Noble lectures, which, while limiting their subject but little, provides that they be published afterwards. The book consists of the William Belden Noble lectures given in 1899 by George Herbert Palmer, Alford professor of philosophy in Harvard University...
...largest gifts of the year were $200,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Robinson, an addition to their previous gift of $100,000, to establish in memory of their son, the Nelson Robinson, Jr., Endowment Fund in the department of Architecture; and $165,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Robinson for the erection of the Architecture Building, and the purchase of books, prints, casts...
...principal addition is Mr. Agassiz's gift of the Davis and McConathy collection of palaeozoic corals. The Davis collection contains more than eight thousand lots and includes many remarkably fine specimens. The chief addition to the exhibition collections is a series of Japanese siliceous sponges for the Pacific room. The installation of the Bangs collection of mammals, containing about 10,000 specimens, chiefly from North America, is now complete, and the old museum collection has been incorporated with it in a separate room. The collection includes a large and valuable series of South American mammals which have been received from...
...publication was entirely due to him. He laid the project before his classmates, and by his enthusiasm roused their interest to such a pitch that they determined to make it a class affair, with the result that the whole of the amount required came to the University as the gift of the Class of 1856. He also served for several years on the editorial committee of the Studies and was a frequent contributor...