Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1899 — PRINCELY GIFTS. [ARTICLE]

PRINCELY GIFTS.

Large Sams Donated to Educational Institutions Thia Tear. In no previous year has the cause of education in the United States been so enriched by donations and bequests as In 1899. The institutions of learning have received $28,720,617, which is $15,634,467 more than they received last year. There have been twenty-four individual donations this year ranging from SIOO,OOO to $15,000,000. The Ust is as follows: Mrs. {Leland Stanford to Leland Stanford University . .>15,000,000 Estate of John Simmons for female college, Boston 2,000,000 Henry C. Warren to Harvard College 1,000,000 G. W. Clayton for a university at Denver 1,000,000 P. D. Armour to Artnour Institute 750,000 Maxwell Somerville to’University of Pennsylvania 600,000 Edward Austin to Harvard College 500,000 Lydia Bradley to Bradley Polytechnic Institute....’ 500,000 Samuel Cuppies to Washington University 400,000 Jacob Schist to Harvard College.. 350,000 Marshall Field and J. D. Rockefeller to University of Chicago. 335,000 Edward Tuck to Dartmouth Cols lege 300,000 J. D. Rockefeller to Brown Uni- t versify 250,000 Caroline L. Macy to New York Teachers’College 200,000 Edward Austin to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 200,000 R. C. Billings to Massachusetts Institute of Technology 150.000 O. C. Marsh to Yale College 150,000 Andrew Carnegie to University of Pensylvania 100,000 Unknown donor to Wesleyan University 100,000 George R. Berry to Baltimore Female College 100,000 J. D. Rockefeller to Denison College 100,000 W. K. Vanderbilt to Vanderbilt University 100,000 Unknown donor to Princeton Col- . lego 100,000 R. C. Billings to Harvard College. 100,000 These twenty-four donations aggregate $24,385,000, or $11,298,850 more than the total of 1898.—Chicago Tribune.