Word: ann
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Eight institutions received $100,000 each for musical education last week under the terms of the will of Music Publisher Charles H. Ditson. Beneficiaries are: Harvard, Yale, Columbia. Princeton, New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Chicago Musical College, Cincinnati College of Music, Ann Arbor School of Music (University of Michigan). The terms of bequest are similar. The money may be used for one or more of these purposes outlined in the will: to maintain a chair or chairs of music, musical history, or musical esthetics; to maintain scholarships or fellowships in music; to give public performances; to do anything...
Similar sums are bequeathed to seven other educational institutions, including Yale, Columbia, Princeton, the New England Conservatory of Music, Chicago Musical College, the College of Music of Cincinnati, and the Ann Arbor School of Music of the University of Michigan...
...countersign the diplomas of X College, which should also bear the Harvard seal, to testify to the equivalence of the degrees granted by the two institutions. Other rights were also granted by Harvard. Then in June, 1893, President Eliot suggested for the name of the proposed college that of Ann Radcliffe, Lady Mowlson, who in 1643 had provided a scholarship and was the first woman to make a gift to Harvard...
Herbert Ill's sister, Peggy Ann, aged three, was a little more sedate, a little more aware of the importance of her position, except when her grandmother took her to the Amaryllis exhibition at the Department of Agriculture. There Mrs. Hoover, patience herself with children, had her hands full keeping Peggy Ann from clutching handfuls of the flowers. "I want 'em! I want 'em!" she kept repeating...
...season, one of the two legitimate theatres in St. Louis harbored Abie's Irish Rose. The other one was empty. But this summer St. Louis feet will tap to the rollicking rhythms of several syncopated operettas, including Rainbow, Funny Face, The Five O'Clock Girl, Sally, Peggy Ann, Tell Me More, Here's Howe. These diversions, all but two of them new to St. Louis, will be staged by the newly-founded Theatre Society of St. Louis, similar to Manhattan's Theatre Guild. From more than 400 applicants, 32 agile St. Louis girls have been selected...