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2 unusual facts about Edward Harkness


Alexander Crombie Humphreys

That year also marked the successful end of the "Million Dollar Campaign," which had attracted donations from alumni as well as George Eastman and Edward Harkness.

Butler Library

Proposed as "South Hall" by the University's former President Nicholas Murray Butler as expansion plans for Low Memorial Library stalled, the new library was funded by Edward Harkness, a Columbia alumnus who was also donor of Yale's residential college system, and designed by his favorite architect, James Gamble Rogers.



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