When I defended my honors thesis at Clark Unversity in 1985, I was asked by the late great Dr. Rudolf Fink Nunnemacher to identify the portraits hanging in the Biology Department's conference room. One of those protraits was of Herman Carey Bumpus.
Hermon Bumpus received the first Ph.D. from Clark University in 1891, based on his dissertation, "The Embryology of the American Lobster." He then served as a faculty member at Brown University, where he organized a graduate program modelled after the program at Clark. Later, he directed the American Museum of Natural History, and became president of Tufts University. Among his biological contributions, Bumpus may be known best for his measurements of wing size of a flock of sparrows killed by a snowstorm in 1899. Relative to the rest of the population, more birds with abnormally long or short wings were killed. This finding has become a classic example of stabilizing selection.
Clark has, in the archives, Hermon's walking stick, with gold monogrammed handle. The grad students used it as a pointer for their talks in the annual Bumpas symposium. There is no knowlege of the Bumpus family donating Clark any significant money, although the family did have some bucks: there is an endowed Hermon Bumpus Chair endowed at Brown, and held by Doug Morse.