New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-10
RICH GIFTS TO HARVARD FOR LAST TWO YEARS
APPROXIMATE VALUE EXCEEDS s4OOOOO0-FOR II
GREAT VARIETY OF PURPOSES.

Higginson gives 100000 to provide Harvard stu
dents with splendid new clubhouse, clubhouse
where rich and poor can meet on an equal OASIS,
and where the strict social lines which are often
drawn closely in big college like Harvard can
be effaced. Other people don't care cent, 10
speak literally, about clubhouses or athletic sta
diums or baby hospitals. but think new hall of
philosophy is what Harvard most eminently needs.
So they give $4,000 for the new Emerson Building
to be named after Ralph Waldo Emerson, and to
carry the philosophical work of Harvard now
conducted by Professor Peabody.
From philosophy one branches off easily Into ar''
and here it is that the Architectural Building
Robinson Hall, 1t is called. after It's Donor
comes into use. This eats up clean 100000 while
the Semitic and Germanic museums representing
respectively the art history and development of the
Semitic and German peoples aggregate between
them considerable
The Semitic Museum, the main gift for which was
made by Mr. Loeb. of the firm of Kuhn. Loeb
& Co, of New-York City, cost approximately
100000 but the value of Emperor Williams gift to
Harvard is not yet known.
These not all, by any means. Harvard's new
lecture hall. containing the largest collegiate lect-
in the world, completed only few
months ago at cost of 1900. and Pierce Hail. the
engineering building costing $4,000, has not
been occupied much longer than year
Then, too there smaller gifts too numerous
to mention. Mrs. James Markoe, of Philadelphia,
presents the university with d scholarship in MEM
others in runaway accident, and other similar
endowments suggested by all sorts of circum-
stances, constantly coming in
All manner of persons contribute. In one gife-
the Godkin memorial fund of s1O,Ooo-Anson Phelps
Stokes, jr.. secretary of Yale College, was con-
tributor, together with such familiar names as
Morgan Charles Eliot Norton, Agassiz and about
fifty others.
Other donors prefer to keep their names secret.
Thus. the new Architectural Hall was given. The
of $4,000 also given anonymously for the
new Emerson Building and other gifts under SINH
lar conditions frequently being made.
And yet when the whole thing has been reviewed,
Harvard has not yet received the gift which she
really needs the most. This is a library,
building which will $4,000, and which has been
made almost necessary by the recent remarkable
growth of the number of books in the present
hall The Harvard library. every one knows, is
the third largest in America, and it is constantly
increasing. Year after year the authorities have
felt more and more the need of building,
until now this is the great imperative need of
the university
Indeed several severe criticisms Especially a
pointed editorial in THE Harvard Bulletin') have
been made that Harvard graduates should consent
to spend money athletic stadium when the
university is in great need of a new library
edice
Harvard also needs gymnasium and money
support the buildings which, like huge incubus
weigh her down, but until personal wishes be
set aside and the fact recognized that Il gift is
best appreciated when most useful the authorities
in all probability, will be disappointed in their
he pes