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...Mozart and his works; of a heart ailment; in El Cerrito, Calif. In 1933, Einstein saw the handwriting on Hitler's wall, fled to Britain, in 1939 came to the U.S., where his success in his specialty led him finally to refer to Hitler ironically as "my greatest benefactor...
...later board of Princeton trustees referred to Belcher as "the Founder patron, and benefactor of the college" but the good Governor may have doubted the value of his project when he was stricken with palsy at the Princeton Commencement of 1750. He died soon afterward, but not before leaving strict orders that he be buried in Cambridge and that his two sons be sent to Harvard...
...Thus," says Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morrison '08, "a Yale man became the greatest benefactor to Harvard in our entire history, making a noble return for the part that Harvard men had taken in founding his alma mater." Three years after Harvard's House system was in operation, Yale, had its College system, also as a result of a gift from Harkness...
...authentic and very exciting. But always before the gridiron can begin to assume the romance or tragedy of, say, a bull-ring, the camera turns to the poisonous growths on the sidelines: the coach with the one-track mind and the rich, prestige-hungry alumnus who acts as "benefactor" to the deserving poor...
University maintenance men will place bullet-proof plastic over a stained glass window in the tomb of the University's most generous benefactor, Gordon McKay, "as soon as possible" to protect it from any renewed attacks by vandals, Irving B. Parkhurst, director of the Department of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday...