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...Architect Cass Gilbert, Lawyers Elihu Root Jr., William Church Osborn and Sugarman Horace Havemeyer who has given the Metropolitan many a Degas, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes. Modernism might have been doomed but for Committeeman Cornelius Bliss, a recent appointee,* brother and estate executor of the late Lizzie Bliss, benefactor of the Museum of Art. Conscientious, publicity shy, Cornelius Bliss is stanch for his late sister's modern art. When Curator Burroughs presented his nine selections to the Committee, Committeemen Gilbert and Root were absent. The Committee passed nine pictures on to the Board of Trustees, who directed Curator Burroughs...
...full blown tiger lily who leaves the rather shut eye environment of her plowed fields to seek more stately mansions in New York. But she differs from the other members of her calling in that she is quite frank about her purpose. When first she meets her eventual benefactor she asks him, "Are you rich?" to which he replies "Is that all you want, my money?" "Yes," says the tiger lily...
...Leaguers thought the memory of those ancient brawls was dim enough to try it again. As were the old Fakirs at their inception, the new society is limited to League students, but they have one more connection with the old society. Sam Shaw is still their patron and benefactor...
...promote its own prestige as well as the welfare of each of its students than by erecting a permanent attractive home for its debaters. If the Corporation, the Board of Overseers and the Faculty will on all possible occasions talk up this project, in a short time some generous benefactor will add another ornamental, as well as useful, building to Harvard's wonderful equipment. Surely no building could be erected that would be of such practical benefit to Harvard as a permanent home for the Debating Council. Several graduates have already stated their willingness to donate books to the Council...
...case in which Thomas A. Edison was sued for half his fortune by an early business associate have just been received by the Business Historical Society. They were compiled and thoroughly annotated by R. W. Hale '92, son of the lawyer who defended Edison against his former benefactor and the latter's colorful attorney. Benjamin F. Butler...