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Colonel William Boyce Thompson of Yonkers, N. Y., Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. director, president of the Magma Arizona R. R., Wartime head of the Red Cross mission to Russia, gave another $1,000,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter's greatest benefactor, he is an alumnus (1890), a trustee, has previously given his school a gymnasium, swimming pool, tennis & squash courts, baseball cage, science building, administration building (total value: over $1,000,000). Other recipients of Thompson benefactions: Columbia University, Clarke School for the Deaf, Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research...
...Harvard Graduates' Magazine tells the story of an obscure benefactor of the college, who chose to call himself George Smith. Where he was born nobody knows. He came into the world as Connelly, son of a porter in the employ of a great mercantile house in St. Louis. The name indicates his adventurous and individualist spirit. One regrets that he abandoned it for its neutral substitute. He did this in honor of James Smith, head of the firm, who, without adopting him, treated him as a son. Mrs. Smith was equally fond...
Most potent of the Brothers Pratt is Herbert Lee, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York, lavish benefactor of the Y. M. C. A. Largest and most impressive is his Glen Cove home, "The Braes," a many-chimneyed pile of red stone with white marble trimmings, baronial courtyard, fountains, gardens. In such a magnificent setting the best of French champagne would not be out of place. To the task of procuring some, Herbert Lee Pratt last spring applied himself, with the following results...
When reached yesterday afternoon by a CRIMSON reporter. Harvard's benefactor said that he had no statement to make either about his visit to Cambridge or about the development of the House Plan...
...President sat in his regular chair, slouched over in one side, smoking a cigar, with his head cocked at an attentive angle. In calling the meetings he showed realization that U. S. Big Business, no longer feared, has reached a position where it is looked to as the big benefactor in times of trouble. Only agreement of big business to maintain schedules can keep U. S. money flowing freely, send miners into the earth, steel workers to the tops of high buildings, loaded freight cars along new steel rails...