Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...endowment, 33 ,new buildings, most of them handsome Georgian brick, and a faculty that has almost tripled. Exonians credit Dr. Perry's fund-raising talent for the school's prosperity. And in fact the biggest gift ($5 million) came from the late oil millionaire, Edward S. Harkness, benefactor of Harvard and Yale, who was no Exonian-just a friend of Perry's. His other friends include hundreds of alumni and parents, students-who see less of him now than their predecessors did-and his grandchildren, who call him "Boo." He was an English professor at Williams College...
...Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and Dictator of the Dominican Republic, is an example of a waning Latin American type-the caudillo (chieftain). As a blend of the Emperor Jones and the European authoritarians, Dictator Trujillo and his ilk always seem bizarre to North Americans. But the southern dictators must be understood if Latin America is to be understood by the big neighbor in the North...
...Alexander Fleming, penicillin's discoverer, presented Pope Pius with a plate for cultivating mold to be used in re searches. In return he received this year's Pontifical Medal (picturing the Good Samaritan), and was eulogized as "a geat benefactor of mankind...
Columbia University was delighted and flabbergasted to read in the papers last week that it had inherited some $2 million. Its benefactor was a competent but obscure historian named Frederic Bancroft,* who died in Washington last fortnight...
Bernard Mannes Baruch peeled off $1,100,000 for teaching and research in "physical medicine"-the use of the healing properties found in such agents as air, light, heat, cold, massage and electricity. Physical medicine was originally recommended to Benefactor Baruch by his father, Confederate Surgeon Simon Baruch. Almost all ($900,000) of the gift went to Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York University's College of Medicine, the Medical College of Virginia (from which Baruch's Confederate-Surgeon father Dr. Simon Baruch graduated 82 years...