Famous Givers and Their Gifts

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Bolton Sarah Knowles. Famous Givers and Their Gifts

PREFACE

JOHN LOWELL, Jr., AND HIS FREE LECTURES

STEPHEN GIRARD. AND HIS COLLEGE FOR ORPHANS

ANDREW CARNEGIE. AND HIS LIBRARIES

THOMAS HOLLOWAY: HIS SANATORIUM AND COLLEGE

CHARLES PRATT. AND HIS INSTITUTE

THOMAS GUY. AND HIS HOSPITAL

SOPHIA SMITH. AND HER COLLEGE FOR WOMEN

JAMES LICK. AND HIS TELESCOPE

LELAND STANFORD. AND HIS UNIVERSITY

CAPTAIN THOMAS CORAM. AND HIS FOUNDLING ASYLUM

HENRY SHAW. AND HIS BOTANICAL GARDEN

JAMES SMITHSON. AND THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

PRATT, LENOX, MARY MACRAE STUART, NEWBERRY, CRERAR, ASTOR, REYNOLDS, AND THEIR LIBRARIES

ENOCH PRATT

JAMES LENOX

MARY MACRAE STUART

WALTER L. NEWBERRY

JOHN CRERAR

JOHN JACOB ASTOR

MORTIMER FABRICIUS REYNOLDS

FREDERICK H. RINDGE. AND HIS GIFTS

ANTHONY J. DREXEL. AND HIS INSTITUTE

PHILIP D. ARMOUR. AND HIS INSTITUTE

LEONARD CASE. AND THE SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE

ASA PACKER. AND LEHIGH UNIVERSITY

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. AND VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

BARON MAURICE DE HIRSCH

ISAAC RICH. AND BOSTON UNIVERSITY

DANIEL B. FAYERWEATHER. AND OTHERS

GEORGE I. SENEY,

HORACE KELLEY,

MR. HART A. MASSEY,

CATHARINE LORILLARD WOLFE

MISS MARY ELIZABETH GARRETT

MRS. ANNA OTTENDORFER

DANIEL P. STONE AND VALERIA G. STONE

SAMUEL WILLISTON,

JOHN F. SLATER AND DANIEL HAND, AND THEIR GIFTS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE

DANIEL HAND

GEORGE T. ANGELL

WILLIAM W. CORCORAN. AND HIS ART GALLERY

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. AND CHICAGO UNIVERSITY

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There is often something pathetic about a great gift. The only son of Leland Stanford dies, and the millions which he would have inherited are used to found a noble institution on the Pacific Coast.

The only son of Henry F. Durant, the noted Boston lawyer, dies, and the sorrowing father and mother use their fortune to build beautiful Wellesley College.

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There is a drawing-room and a weaving-room, though applicants must be able to draw from nature before they enter. In the weaving-room are two fancy chain-looms for dress-goods, three fancy chain-looms for woollen cassimeres, one gingham loom, and one Jacquard loom. Samples of brocaded silk, ribbons, alpacas, and fancy woollen goods are constantly provided for the school from Paris and elsewhere.

The course of study requires three years; and students are taught the art of designing, and making patterns from prints, ginghams, delaines, silks, laces, paper-hangings, carpets, oilcloths, etc. They can also weave their designs into actual fabrics of commercial sizes of every variety of material. The school has proved a most helpful and beneficent institution. It is an inspiration to visit it, and see the happy and earnest faces of the young workers, fitting themselves for useful positions in life.

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