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...Reynolds and was for several years leading lady at the Museum. Her professional training and experience are, of course, a great assistance to her in reading plays of every kind, a degree of cultivation unusual on the stage makes her rendering of poetry delightful; and she has a particular gift for bringing out all the strange and impressive qualities of Ibsen...
...Sloane, who was a Vanderbilt, and her husband, had subscribed $200,000 for the erection of an addition to the Sloane Maternity Hospital; and that two gentlemen had guaranteed the necessary half million dollars for the erection of two new buildings of Columbia College on Riverside heights. The gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt and his three brothers is in memory of their father, William H. Vanderbilt, who built the present Vanderbilt clinic. Cornelius Vanderbilt and his brothers will also defray the cost of equipping both buildings thoroughly. Mr. and Mrs. Sloane will completely equip the new addition to the Maternity Hospital...
John D. Rockfeller presented Chicago University with $175,000 as a New Year's gift...
...president, gives a brief resume of the work accomplished since the founding of the college, and of the aims and purposes of the institution. In closing her report she speaks of a scholarship, recently endowed, in the name of Joanna Hoar, probably by one of her descendants, though the gift was anonymous...
...increase in gifts to the institution since it became a college and received a distinctive name is marked. Besides the gift in memory of Joanna Hoar, already mentioned, the college has also received funds to establish the Agnes Irwin Scholarship, contributed by about seven hundred women who had been under the care of the present Dean of Radcliffe, during her life in Philadelphia. Another scholarship has been founded by Mrs. Josiah M. Fiske, of New York City, in memory of her husband. Ninety-seven thousand dollars have been received by the treasurer in cash and securities from the estate...