Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...culinary cubist" is certain, eventually, to come up with a tasty meal-in-one capsule. Then Mrs. Holstein can work overtime and still rush home to feed 14 admiring guests. If they were impressed with the factory-assembled meal, they will be ecstatic over capusules. EVELYN B. SPANG Ann Arbor, Mich...
...concluding address as President of Radcliffe College last night, Wilbur K. Jordan spoke on the life of Ann Radcliffe, the seventeenth century English philantropist for whom the College is named. Although gaps exist in the historical documentation of her life, Jordan said, there is abundant evidence that Ann Radcliffe was a "truly remarkable woman" and a "sagaciously tough lady...
...gift of 100 pounds to Harvard in 1643, the largest the College had received up to that time, was directly solicited by John Weld, from Roxbury. Weld persuaded Ann Radcliffe, who never saw America, both to set up a trust fund, the income of which was to be used solely for scholarship purposes, and to name his son, a Junior in the College, first recipient of the award...
Years later, when women were first being allowed to study at the College, the Corporation again recognized Ann Radcliffe's gift as a separate fund and decided to name the women's annex...
Jordan will present a lecture, "Ann Radcliffe and Her Times," based upon his research on philanthropy in 17th century England. Ann Radcliffe, a member of this early charitable movement, established the first endowed scholarship fund at Harvard College...