Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; College buildings--Finance; Lewiston (Me.); Bates College (Lewiston, Me.)
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 69
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
See also Series II.A.5. General Donations
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
A gift of $50,000 from Andrew Carnegie is announced by President George Chase of Bates College. Mr. Carnegie's offer of this amount stipulated that friends of the institution shall subscribe $100,000." [SOURCE: "CARNEGIE GIVES $50,000." The Sun (1837- 1992), 1907, pp. 2. ProQuest, http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/537280299?accountid=10226. Accessed 6 Aug. 2018.] "Carnegie Science Hall is named for its major benefactor, Andrew Carnegie. The vast building houses the classrooms and laboratories of the biology, geology, and physics and astronomy departments." [SOURCE: "Carnegie Science Hall." Bates, https://www.bates.edu/campus-tour/academic-buildings/carnegie-science-hall/. Accessed 9 Aug. 2018.]