Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trustees of Cornell have passed a resolution in favor of ordering a statue of Ezra Cornell, the patron of their university, from the American sculptor. Story, who is now working in Rome...
...letter of Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers. Mr. Rogers lived from 1763 to 1855, and first appeared as an author in the same year with Burns, namely, 1786. His poetry was of the unimpassioned, meditative character. Chambers says that "it was man of taste and letters, as a patron of artists and authors, and as the friend of almost every illustrious man that has graced our annals for the last half century or more, that Mr. Rogers chiefly engaged the public at tention." His colleges works have been published in various forms...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The notable lack of accommodation in the way of college rooms invites attention to some effort to remedy this lack, until some generous patron has given us a new dormitory. Everyone has noticed that our oldest hall, Massachusetts, has long been given to vacancy and examinations, no use being made of it all, practically, except on rare occasions. The use of this hall as a dormitory was discontinued with the building of new halls some ten years ago in which sufficient accommodations were provided for all the students then here. With the advent of Sever Hall...
...during the past year. Numerous gifts were made to the library, and the additions to the museum had been larger than in any preceding year, the large increase being chiefly due to the special explorations made either by the curator or under his immediate direction through the liberality of patrons of American research. In concluding his report, the treasurer expressed the hope that some liberal patron of science would provide for an increase of the regular income of the museum; and also for an addition to the building, since the present accommodations would not permit of the exhibition of more...
...performance of "Esmeralda" at the Madison Square tomorrow night, each patron will be given a handsome tile designed by Vedder...