Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Final selection of architect and architectural style will rest, with the center's benefactor, who will also receive a permanent suite in the building. A tentative model shows a "Georgian" building constructed around three sides of a rectangular courtyard...
Until that time, no one had ever heard of a society giving degrees. The next move was to make the Annex a college. This happened in 1894. The Massachusetts General Court approved a charter for Radcliffe College, named after Ann Radcliffe, Harvard's first woman benefactor. This charter contained a provision that it could award no degrees "except with the approval of the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
...house the students of the newest college, Oxford authorities had acquired a small group of buildings once used as an Anglican convent. These they renamed St. Antony's, in honor of Benefactor Antonin Besse. Then they began laying plans for the curriculum which St. Anthony's students would follow...
...Provost most certainly has established certain priorities for the needs of the College. Many pressing needs exist and we all hope they will eventually be filled. I hope you will agree with me, however, that the wishes of a generous benefactor cannot be entirely ignored, and that it is therefore fitting to use part of Mr. Burr's munificent bequest for a purpose that I am convinced was close to his heart. James R. Reynolds, Assistant to the President...
...Einstein looks on his years as a music critic as a "nightmare" when he had time to be "only a bricklayer in musicology." By chasing him out of this rut and back to work as a master mason in music scholarship, Adolf Hitler, he says, became "my greatest benefactor...