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...Hammer makes this gift in memory of her husband, Mr. Emil C. Hammer, Danish Consul at the port of Boston from 1859 to 1894. Mr. Hammer in his lifetime was much interested in Harvard, and on various occasions presented books to the Library. It is therefore a very suitable memorial which his widow has now raised in his honor...
...Stillman, of New York, who gave $50,000 last year for an infirmary at Harvard, and later supplemented his gift by an offer of $2,500 a year for four years for the maintenance of the building, has given an additional $50,000. This gift is to be used by the construction committee in any way they see fit. The high price of building materials has delayed the construction of the infirmary, but the increased funds will now make it possible to break ground for the building early in the spring...
...first scholarship ever bequested to Harvard was founded in 1643, by Lady Ann Mowlson, of London, by gift of a hundred pounds, "to be and to remain a perpetual stipend for the maintenance of some poor scholar until such time as such scholar doth attain the degree of a Master of Arts." This is unquestionably the oldest foundation of the kind in this country...
...Ninety Donors. For the Asa Gray Memorial Fund. The largest gift, amounting to $10,000, was made by Mrs. Warren B. Potter...
...publishing in substantial book form the best theses that may be written by candidates for the degree of Ph.D. Ten theses have been published during the past fifteen years, the last one being by Kate Oelzner Petersen in 1898 entitled, "On the Sources of the Nonne Priestes Tale." Another gift received is that of *250 from Mrs. Eva Mackintosh of England, for which there is no specified...