They founded libraries, symphonies, and theatres and gave the city its first aura of sophistication.
This seeks to boost reading, by founding libraries and financing publishers among other things.
Thomas Prince, stirred by the same spirit, founded a library, too.
Thus — the recent name change notwithstanding — he founded a library, not a museum.
The rules originated with Helen Clay Frick, who founded the library in the 1920's and died in 1984.
Mr Bush has published a couple of books, founded a library in Texas, practised bipartisan matiness with Bill Clinton and keeps largely stumm about his record.
The Readers Digest version of the tale begins at the end of the century before last, when Collis Potter Huntington, a railroad magnate, founded the library in what was then a rural section of the Bronx.
Melville Dewey founded the library school there, so I decided to get the Dewey and Cutter code for the Harry Potter books as they were catalogued in my university library.
Collectors of private libraries have sometimes benefited posterity by leaving their collections to public institutions or founding a library.
Ptolemy soon took advantage of Demetrius's wide and versatile knowledge and, about 295 bce, charged him with the task of founding the library and the Mouseion.
