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Harvard Hall's present site was once occupied by one of the most ancient of the College buildings, which also bore the name of the College's first benefactor and namesake. But in the year 1764 a smallpox epidemic broke out in Massachusetts, and a prudent General Court moved to Cambridge to escape the worst of the plague. In the midst of the winter vacation, old Harvard Hall suddenly caught fire, and despite the efforts of a night-shirted Governor and Legislature it burned to the ground, consuming the greater part of the library, including all save...
...money from the will was being used to pay the Harvard faculty to give "Afternoon and Saturday courses for teachers." Three years later, President Lowell, a descendant of the original benefactor, formed the extension committee to run the present program. The committee uses money provided by the Lowell Institute, which handles the funds maintained by the will...
...settlement in Korea, were visibly pleased. In Japan, it was as though a fatherly friend and mentor had departed. The Nippon Times said: "The Japanese people owe General MacArthur an eternal debt of gratitude." The national Diet sent a letter: "Deepest gratitude . . . We shall remember you as our greatest benefactor...
...darted overhead. One 21-gun salute after another boomed out. Within the pea-green reception room of the government building in the dusty Dominican border town of Elias Pifia, officials of Hispaniola's two little republics crowded close. Then Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and for 20 years dictator of the Dominican Republic, stepped forward and embraced coal-black Colonel Paul Magloire, newly elected President of Haiti and something of a strong man himself...
Merl got to know his benefactor in Missouri when he helped a little in Harry Truman's 1934 campaign for the Senate. A smooth-talking young man at 24, Merl came to Washington in 1937 and got a job with a dairy company. But his Missouri friend did not forget him. In 1940, Senator Truman gave Marl's wife, Lauretta, a job in his office; for part of the time, she was Harry Vaughan's secretary. Merl himself went to work for the Government's General Accounting Office as an assistant messenger at $20 a week...