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...establishment of this institution has long been a dream of Mr. Drexel's and he has been at work on it for years. It is an everlasting monument to a most generous, broad minded, and pailanthropie man. Mr. Drexel is now a man of about sixty and is at the head of a most successful banking business in Philadelphia. He is one of the largest givers for charity in that city. He has been very much aided in the growth of the institute by Mr. George W. Childs, who with Mr. Drexel and his son compose the board of trustees...
...other day, going to see John Harvard's grave in the old cemetery at Charlestown, I found the inscriptions on the monument almost. completely worn away by the weather. The one on the eastern side was entirely illegible and it was only with the help of favoring shadows that, after many tribulations, I deciphered the words on the western side. The monument was erected by the graduates of 1828 in honor of the founder of their beloved University. Will not the undergraduates of 1891 see to it that the inscriptions are kept in good condition? The expense would be comparatively...
...buildings for the new Stanford University, built by Senator and Mrs. Stanford as a monument to their son Leland, are rapidly approaching completion. They are situated at Palo Alto, an estate of 8,000 acres, reaching from the valley of the Bay of San Francisco to the foot hills of the coast range. In addition to the university and college buildings, the great dormitories and work shops, and the numerous other buildings necessary for a university which is intended to accommodate 800 male and female students, Mrs. Stanford is preparing, out of her own income, the construction of a building...
...what a monument of glorious worth When in a new edition he comes forth, Without errutas, may we think he'll be In leares and covers of eternity...
Lately a placard has been posted up in the Library inviting subscriptions for a monument to Dante at Ravenna...