Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selected company of eminent scholars and special students" from the faculties of American colleges; in addition, men of international reputation will be invited. Lectures, conferences and round table discussions will be the method of study, which next summer is to be devoted particularly to international problems. An unknown benefactor has relieved the Institute of financial worries for three years; and with the announcement that Ambassador Davis is taking with him to London an invitation to Lord Robert Cecil to be present at its opening session, the Institute seems to be in the hands of energetic men who are sure...
...athletic teams which formerly decorated the walls, to positions along the stairways, and is hanging in their stead a number of paintings borrowed from Memorial Hall, Fogg Museum, and other college buildings. Among these paintings is one by Blackburn, the Colonial artist, of Johannes Lowell, a former Fellow and benefactor of the University, several portraits of other prominent graduates and officers, and a work by Felix Ziem of a view in Venice. The stag and elk heads and athletic trophies will, of course, be kept in the room...
Finally, as an example of useful citizenship, we have portrayed in an admirable sketch and poem the life of that "high minded gentleman" and benefactor of Harvard University, Henry Lee Higginson...