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New England Watch and Ward Society $10,000

Home for Aged Colored Women 1,000

Roxbury Home for Children and Aged Women .... 500

Avon Home of Cambridge, Mass 1,000

South End Industrial School 1,000

Boston North End Mission 5°°

Ramabai Association 5°°

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute 25,000

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute 20,000

Calhoun Colored School 5,0°°

Prospect Union Association, Cambridge 20,000

Boston Children's Aid Society 50,000

Harvard College, for new and cheap Commons Hall. . 70,000 Harvard College, for encouragement of philanthropic work by the students, $10,000 to go towards the Phillips

Brooks House i S,ooo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 50,000

Radcliffe College 10,000

Phillips Exeter Academy 5»°oo

At the Commencement dinner of the alumni of Harvard, in 1897, President Eliot thus referred to Miss Randall's gift to the University : —

"Another gift we anticipate is from a woman who, through a body of trustees, has chosen to give $70,000 to Harvard for the purpose of building a new dining hall for the benefit of those students who desire to and must econo- mize during their college life. Miss Randall said she wanted her money devoted to charities, and her trustees have decided that that is a charity. It is the best kind of a charity, for it is a charity which is a preventive rather than a palliative of evil."

Besides the above varied and great benefactions made through her trustees after her death. Miss Randall made many others during her lifetime, in conformity to what she knew to be her brother's wishes as well as her own. To the lioston Society of Natural History, in which he

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