The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-21
oLp-TIME LOTTERY ETHICS.
when Money Was Thereby Raised
for College Purposes.
from the Boston Globe.)

| II rom the Boston UioDeJ
| When one reads, as has frequently been
| the case of late of the arrest OF such and
| such an individual for the maintaining and
| promoting of lottery it is hard to con-
| ceive that within the present century Har-
! ward College sought and obtained permis-
sion from the Legislature to hold such an
! affair Such is the case. however, II We can
| rely on history.
| In 1906 when the finances of the college
| were In a decidedly critical state, the cor
poration. having represented the situation
and duly petitiOned. were accorded power
by the general court to raise by means Of
lottery the sum of $4,000 for the cree
ton of new building in the college yard.
With the proceeds of this lottery the col.
lego was enabled to begin in 1911 the new
building which was completed in 1913.
The entire cost of the building-Hol-
worthy-was s24 900. so that the balance
which remained Of the $4,000 produced by
the lottery was applied to reinstate the
stock which the college had expended in
erecting Stoughton hall and to other OBJ
jects specified in the act granting the lot
terry
This new building. which today is prob
ably the one most sought after by under
graduates at the annual drawing of rooms,
and in which 1t is not allowed that fresh
men shall live, received its name in honor
OF Sir Matthew Holworthy. the greatest
benefactor of the college in respect to the
amount of his bounty, during the seven
teenth century.
He was a merchant OF Hackney, in the
county of Middlesex. and was knighted by
Charles III in 1865. AT his death in 1913
a part of his will was found to read as
follows: Il give and bequeath to the col
lege or university in or of Cambridge, in
New England, the sum of G1OOO tenor-
nous at that time), to be paid over to the
governors and directors thereof. to be
disposed of by them as they shall judge
best for promoting of learning and pro-
mitigation of the gospel in those parts:
the same to be paid within two years after
my demise.
The above case of a lottery. however,
was not the first in the history of the
college. AS early as 1865 one had been
authorized for the purpose of raising funds
for the erection of new building tnow
Harvard halD to replace its predecessor,
destroyed by fire. The fire which de-
stroyed the former building was Supposed
to have originated under the hearth OF
The library, where a fire had been kept
FOR the use of ths general court. which
VAS sitting there on account Of the preva-
lanco of smallpox in Boston. The new
building erected from the proceeds of
the lottery, contained chapel, dining
hall library, ml:seum, philosophy cham
Der, and an apartment for the philosoph-
zeal apparatus" Such description sounds
not unlike catalogue of the machinery
and cogs stored inside mans head.
Again the lottery was resorted to Q794 |
for the purpose of replenishing the treasury |
of tho college. On this occasion the capital |
prize of $4,000 was drawn by the collegs |
itself. the lucky number being 1S5i7.
~ I'll.
would not seem unnatural that judges. par !
ticularly if they had graduated from Har-
ward and had happened to have lived in
Howorthy, should be inclined to deal gent
ly with those accused of breaking the lot |
terry laws.
In many Of the feverish South American
Republics today the lottery is in full !