Famous Givers and Their GiftsBolton, Sarah Knowles
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Famous Givers and Their Gifts
Bolton, Sarah Knowles
Philanthropists
No pains or expense have been spared to finish and furnish this college
with every comfort, even luxury. There are over 1,000 rooms, and
accommodations for about 300 students. Each person has two rooms, one
for sleeping and one for study; and there is a sitting-room for every
six persons. The dining-hall is 100 feet long, 30 wide, and 30 high. The
semi-circular ceiling is richly ornamented. The recreation-hall, which
is in reality a picture-gallery, is 100 feet long, 30 wide, and 50 high,
with beautiful ceiling and floor of polished marquetry. The pictures
here were collected by Mr. Martin Holloway, and cost about £100,000, or
half a million dollars. Sir Edwin Landseer's famous picture, "Man
proposes, God disposes," was purchased for £6,000. It was painted in
1864 by Landseer, who received £2,500 for it. It represents an arctic
incident suggested by the finding of the relics of Sir John Franklin.
Here are "The Princes in the Tower" and "Princess Elizabeth in Prison at
St. James," by Sir John Millais; "The Babylonian Marriage Market" and
"The Suppliants," by Edwin Long; "The Railway Station," by W. P. Frith;
and other noted works. The gallery is open to the public every Thursday
afternoon, and in the summer months on Saturdays also. There are several
thousand visitors each year.
The college has twelve rooms with deadened walls for practising music, a
gymnasium, six tennis-courts (three of asphalt and three of grass), a
large swimming-bath, a lecture theatre, museum, a library with carved
oak bookcases reaching nearly to the ceiling, and an immense kitchen
which serves for a school for cookery. Electric lights and steam heat
are used throughout the buildings, and there are open fireplaces for the
students' rooms.
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