Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, who signed a document criticizing the attitude of the Senator toward the war. The University and its faculty are rather more dependent on the generosity of the State Legislature than any endowed institution upon the generosity of its private benefactors. And no private benefactor has ever publicly prohibited the expression of political views hostile to his own. Furthermore, private benefactors, wicked though they may be, are consistent in wickedness. Not so State Legislatures. The next House in Wisconsin will have full power to repeal the opinions of the entire University...
Chancellor Emeritus James R. Day of Syracuse University is dead. And with his death, endowed education (what The New York Call describes as "The Hire Learning"), is advanced to the center of the stage again. John D. Archbold, vice-president of the Standard Oil Company, was a generous benefactor of Syracuse. Chancellor Day of Syracuse was a vigorous and outspoken champion of the established " interests." It needed only a little mathematics to prove that Chancellor Day had been bought by "The Trusts"-so said the progressives...
...thousand volumes, and was described by Mr. Robert C. Winthrop as the most valuable library of English books with which he was acquainted. Before the death of Mr. Dowse, he conveyed this library, gathered with infinite care, to the Massachusetts Historical Society, thus becoming at that time its chief benefactor. His executors, authorized by his will to distribute the residue of his estate for "literary, scientific, and charitable purposes", conveyed to the City of Cambridge $10,000 on condition that $600 a year should be paid "every year forever" to "provide one or more courses of lectures of the highest...
...large signal drum given the Museum by Dr. A. H. Rice '98, has been placed with the South American material on the second floor. Dr. Rice, several times previously the benefactor of the Museum, has spent many years in research on the banks of the Amazon and the Orinoco...
...giving of money to colleges has always been considered one of the best ways of serving social betterment. It offers freedom and enlightenment to the nation through improving facilities for education and presents an excellent method for a man of wealth to become a real benefactor. Labor, with its plan of state and Federal endowment of colleges would limit and deaden education. There would be less variations, less diversity, less freedom in educational opportunities. All minds would be sent through the same machinery and cast in the same mould...