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...part in all this. Benefactor Hanna wanted no fuss made, forbade naming the new wing or even any gallery for him. Said he, shortly before he died: "I've just done my share. Persons who gave $5 and $10 have done as much in proportion...
Here in Cambridge, George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, will conduct prayers honoring John Harvard in Appleton Chapel at 8:45 this morning. Widener Library opened an exhibition on the benefactor, including the only book remaining from his library, last Wednesday...
...England, the Lord Bishop of Southwark will give a commemorative address at Southwark Cathedral, London, the place where the College's first benefactor was christened. A reception, given by the Harvard Club of London, will follow the service...
...plotting. Playwright Kazan, onetime play reader for the Theatre Guild and wife of Director Elia Kazan, must eventually abandon action for argument. This means a drop in dramatic force. Thus, when the student unequivocally assures his worried benefactor that he is not a Communist, he seems morally much more horrifying than when, later on, he gives all the reasons why he is one. In the last act The Egghead becomes a lively enough symposium, but in any creative sense it really ceases to be a play...
...sugar-coat its cut-rate faculty salaries; e.g., Reed's full professors average only $7,500 v. the $10,293 average pay of their counterparts at the state-owned University of Oregon. But Reed's hard-put faculty members had some cheering news last week: an anonymous benefactor gave Reed an endowment fund worth some $400,000 that will be used solely to raise salaries. The new gift boosted Reed's take in the last 16 months to $1,200,000, a 64% rise in its endowment...