PAGE JOHN LOWELL, JR., AND HIS FREE LECTURES 1 STEPHEN GIRARD AND HIS COLLEGE FOR ORPHANS 29 ANDREW CARNEGIE AND HIS LIBRARIES 58 THOMAS HOLLOWAY; HIS SANATORIUM AND COLLEGE 89 CHARLES PRATT AND HIS INSTITUTE 108 THOMAS GUY AND HIS HOSPITAL 128 SOPHIA SMITH AND HER COLLEGE FOR WOMEN 153 JAMES LICK AND HIS TELESCOPE 173 LELAND STANFORD AND HIS UNIVERSITY 201 CAPTAIN THOMAS CORAM AND HIS FOUNDLING ASYLUM 234 HENRY SHAW AND HIS BOTANICAL GARDEN 247 JAMES SMITHSON AND THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 258 PRATT, LENOX, MARY MACRAE STUART, NEWBERRY, CRERAR, ASTOR, REYNOLDS AND THEIR LIBRARIES 264 FREDERICK H. RINDGE AND HIS GIFTS 283 ANTHONY J. DREXEL AND HIS INSTITUTE 285 PHILIP D. ARMOUR AND HIS INSTITUTE 291 LEONARD CASE AND HIS SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE 297 ASA PACKER AND LEHIGH UNIVERSITY 301 CORNELIUS VANDERBILT AND VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 306 BARON MAURICE DE HIRSCH 312 ISAAC RICH AND BOSTON UNIVERSITY 315 DANIEL B. FAYERWEATHER AND OTHERS 318 CATHARINE LORILLARD WOLFE 323 MARY ELIZABETH GARRETT 326 MRS. ANNA OTTENDORFER 328 DANIEL P. STONE AND VALERIA G. STONE 331 SAMUEL WILLISTON 332 JOHN F. SLATER AND DANIEL HAND 336 GEORGE T. ANGELL 347 WILLIAM W. CORCORAN 351 JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER AND CHICAGO UNIVERSITY 357 JOHN LOWELL, JR., AND HIS FREE LECTURES. 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. The only son of Amasa Stone is drowned while at Yale College, and his father builds Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, to honor his boy, and bless his city and State. John Lowell, Jr., early bereft of his wife and two daughters, his only children, builds a lasting monument for himself, in his Free Lectures for the People, for all time,--the Lowell Institute of Boston.