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...preach it. Still a young man, he died "of a consumption" a year later, bequeathing to the new school his library of 400 volumes and some ?800 which enabled it to open its doors as Harvard College in the autumn of 1638. Last week no one knew what Benefactor Harvard looked like or where he was buried...
...young people in Korea, Japan and the Philippines in 1929, staked them to musical education in the U. S. One of these, a Korean who fortnight ago received a doctor's degree from Chicago Musical Dramatic Conservatory, changed his name to Rody Hyun in honor of his benefactor...
...formula: Edward S. Harkness does not talk to the Press. But Lawrenceville's enthusiastic young Headmaster Allan Vanderhoeft Heely, who came from Andover two years ago to succeed the late Mather Almon ("The Bott") Abbott, told a story calculated to excite the envy of any U. S. educator. Benefactor Harkness had given $7,000,000 to Exeter for a Conference Plan, besides budgetary lifts to Andover, Hill, Choate. He had not thought of Lawrenceville until Headmaster Heely, after plotting unsuccessfully to get an introduction, seized the bull by the horns by marching straight into the Harkness office. How much...
Alumni guessed that Lawrenceville's changes would cost $3,000,000. Headmaster Heely did not worry, confident that whatever they cost would be paid by Benefactor Harkness, who rarely sets sums in advance, likes to keep a friendly eye on his projects, suggest an improvement now & then himself...
...long distance telephone, called Lloyd Lewis from class, congratulated him, summoned him to Manhattan. When Winner Lewis arrived last week to collect his scholarship, he delighted Comedian Cantor by making first-rate human interest copy. Big-eared, slick-haired, sloe-eyed, and looking not un like his benefactor, Lloyd told how he had written his essay between chores on his father's 100-acre farm, how his Plattsburg teachers had dismissed it as "only fair," how at first he did not believe his good fortune until Eddie Cantor confirmed the news on the air. To newshawks he drawled...