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...College in 1821, despite the fact that Harvard godlessness was one of the alleged reasons why a college was needed in the Connecticut Valley. The man who made the strongest speech for the chartering of Amherst in the Legislature was a Master of Arts of Harvard; the first large benefactor of Amherst College was David Sears, a Harvard graduate; and a subscription for the Amherst Library, which was on view when I last visited the College, shows that Harvard professors and graduates contributed liberally to building up the collection of books at Amherst College...
President Schlimgen, who was re-elected for a second term, is a third-generation tombstone-carver. His father was founder and first president of the Memorial Craftsmen. Yet tombstones are not his only interest. He is president and chief benefactor of the Madison (Wis.) Zoo. President Schlimgen could scarcely wait last week for the tombstone convention to close. Back in Madison, Princess, his favorite lioness, had had a litter of cubs...
...Nathalia Crane was a child prodigy. Only daughter of an unremarkable Brooklyn couple, she published her first book of "poetry" (The Janitor's Boy) when she was 10. Thereafter, in fairly rapid succession, she wrote and published three more books of verse, a stilted novel. An unknown benefactor offered to send her abroad and put her through college if she would not publish anything more until after graduation. Last week, now 22 and a graduate of Columbia University's Barnard College, onetime Prodigy Nathalia Crane published her fifth book of poems. They still read like the writings...
...Museum of Modern Art was bound to begin with an initial handicap. As if this were not enough, the Museum's discreet directors last week placed two additional handicaps upon the first comprehensive showing of one of its finest gift collections, simply because the Museum's principal benefactor happens to have a great name and a great modesty. Handicap No. 1 was encountered on the first floor in the form of a gigantic portrait of beefy, bewhiskered Henry Hobson Richardson (see p. 29) and an exhibition of that architect's work. The second floor was given over...
Grateful Gloversville honored its stout, bald, walrus-mustached benefactor with a life-size statue of which Mr. Littauer, as a believer in useful monuments, disapproves on principle. Six years ago he established the Littauer Foundation which supports research into pneumonia, cancer, heart disease...