Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 40 years, Tannahill was active in the affairs of the Institute. He was a longtime member of its governing body and an honorary curator of American art. He made his first gift (an 18th century Hispano-Moorish vase valued at $25) in 1926, and remained a generous benefactor till his death in September at the age of 76. In his will Tannahill made his personal choices public by giving his favorite museum a last and most munificent gift: his multimillion-dollar private collection, including a life-size Renoir nude, seven Cezanne oils, five major Picassos and an important...
Winthrop? he asked. One with a motor would be better, Lester allowed. The answer was not lost on Nelson, who bought a pea-green motorbike and sent it to the statehouse in Atlanta. Put-putting happily around his office, Maddox offered his newest benefactor a free ride any time he comes south...
...through the twenties and into the Depression. But Edward Harkness, author of the House system, was responsible for the Union's final social demise. With the new Houses an undergraduate building was no longer needed: and the University, looking carefully into Major Higginson's will, discovered that the benefactor had made allowances for the failure of his institution as a club, and promptly named its new freshman half the Harvard Freshman Union. No one was terribly sorry about this development-except one or two recent alumni who grumbled something about the $50 Life Membership appearing valid only for the life...
Where did some of the angry natives so resent a local benefactor that they wore buttons proclaiming "No Man Is an Island"? See BUSINESS, Trading Up Nantucket...
...additional $4 million in gifts. His final bequest will total several million dollars more when the additional parts of his estate left to Harvard are liquidated. James R. Reynolds, assistant to the president for Development, said yesterday the additional funds could make Mallinckrodt the University's most generous benefactor...