Gifts Made Manifest
The gifts took physical expression in the five core buildings, originally designated A - E, surrounding the Quad. Though since renamed and enlarged, these buildings still bear inscriptions commemorating their original donors. The Morgan gift paid for the erection of the Administration or Building A (now Gordon Hall) and B (now Goldenson) and C buildings. Building C carries the following inscription: "In Memory of Junius Spencer Morgan, a Native of Massachusetts, a Merchant of Boston, afterwards a Merchant of London. Born April 14, 1813. Died April 8, 1890."
Building D (now the Arminise Building) commemorates the Huntington gift: "Collis P. Huntington Memorial Laboratories for Instruction and Research in Pathology and Bacteriology. Erected in 1904 through the Munificence of Arabella D. Huntington. Life is Short and the Art Long, the Occasion Instant, Experiment Perilous, Decision Difficult."
The E Building (now part of the Tosteson Medical Education Center) reads, "Sears Memorial Laboratories for Instruction and Research in Hygiene and Pharmacology. Erected in 1904 in Memory of David Sears, Harvard A.B. 1807, and David Sears, Harvard A.B. 1842, by David Sears, Harvard A.B. 1874."
At its meeting in April 1902, the Medical Faculty recognized the "seemingly hopeless and unparalleled task" undertaken by Henry P. Bowditch and J. Collins Warren and voted its appreciation for their efforts: "Thus through their instrumentality has our school become the best endowed in this country. It remains for its teachers to make it deserving of this high position. Therefore we the colleagues in the Faculty of Medicine of Harvard University tender to Doctor Bowditch and Doctor Warren our sincere thanks for the great and lasting benefits they have secured for this school, and for the advancement which medical science has received through their noble efforts."