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 274 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO interests. He was the trusted adviser of President Harper and President Judson. The Board of Trustees held him in the highest honor and never considered the possibility of losing his services as president. Mr. Rockefeller trusted in him with perfect confi- dence, and he was a tower of strength for the University among the business men of Chicago. Almost equaling the contributions of Mr. Ryerson was the sum received from the estate of William B. Ogden, amounting to nearly six hundred thousand dollars. The donations of La Verne W. Noyes amounted to about five hundred thousand. From Charles T. Yerkes and his estate came above four hundred thousand, and Marshall Field contributed to various funds above three hundred and sixty thousand. Julius Rosenwald gave above a quarter of a million, as did Sidney A. Kent and Elizabeth G. Kelly. The Commercial Club of Chicago, in trans- ferring the Chicago Manual Training School to the University, added two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to its assets. Mrs. Charles Hitchcock gave above two hundred thousand. The various gifts of Mrs. Frederick Haskell exceeded one hundred and eighty-six thousand, those of Silas B. Cobb one hundred and sixty-five thousand, those of A. C. Bartlett one hundred and fifty-four thousand, those of George C. Walker one hundred and thirty-six thousand, and those of Mrs. Joseph Reynolds a hundred thousand. The gifts of Leon Mandel were in excess of eighty-eight thousand, those of Charles L. Hutchinson reached seventy- two thousand, and those of Mrs. Nancy Foster exceeded eighty thousand dollars. Among those who contributed fifty thousand dollars or more were John J. Mitchell, Mrs. Jerome Beecher, Mrs. A. J. Snell, John Johnston, Jr., and W. F. E. Gurley. There were others who gave forty, thirty, twenty-five, ten, and five thousand dollars, and many who gave a thousand dollars. There were hundreds who contributed between a hundred and a thousand dollars and thousands who gave smaller sums. The benefactors of the University became in very many instances its fast friends and were always ready when the need arose to repeat their gifts, so that their names appear as contributors on the books twice, ten times, and in some cases thirty times or more. More than eight