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...will always be wanting something. The relief which Bowdoin has received has come largely from outside, especially in the Stone and Winkley Professorships, founded by the late Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Malden, and Mr. Henry Winkley, of Philadelphia. Nothing was known of Mr. Winkley before he made this gift. One day, Prof. Packard said, he saw a gentleman looking about the grounds. He asked him if he would like to look at the buildings. He said he should, and then inquired for President Chamberlin, and remarked that he had a check in his pocket for the college...
...acquaintance, and their intimacy was continued by a visit from the banker at Professor Parker's beautiful Hanover home. Out of this friendship and admiration for one of the college's most popular professors resulted the bequest of $50,000 to the college. An added interest attaches to the gift for the reason that no one was aware of the intention of the benefactor until after his death...
...scientific knowledge acquired in the class room. To aid in the establishment of a thorough school of mines, some $200,000 is needed, and as Washington took so much interest in this particular university, it seems peculiarly fitting that his birthday should be made the occasion of such a gift as the one in contemplation. "It was when Washington was in Philadelphia, in 1796, as president," says Progress, "that he made the munificent gift of $50,000 to Liberty Hall Academy, now Washington and Lee University; and it was upon Pennsylvania's soil, and in the Sacred Hall of Independence...
This is peculiarly the period of munificent generosity in public donations and particularly of gifts for educational purposes. Large endowments of new or long established institutions by the wealthy are of almost every day occurrence. A gift of this sort is hardly considered worthy of notice by the press unless it be among the hundred thousands. The example of Johns Hopkins in endowing the university of his name at Baltimore and of Judge Packer in founding Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, emphasized recently by the additional bequest of his son the late President Packer of the Lehigh R. R., of some...
...college is notably fortunate in the matter of free scholarships, the present number being sixty-five. A gift of $40,000 has just been received by the college for the establishment of a professorship to be called the "Emma Speare Huntington Professorship," after the daughter of the donor, Hon. Alden Spear...