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...words of the school prayer, has had "rich gifts bestowed upon it, and its courts thronged with youth." Deer-foot Farms are located in Southborough, and when the wind is in the right quarter Third Formers, whose dormitory faces East, are made well aware of their late benefactor's sausage plant.* So that St. Mark's boys may be further pork-conscious, each year on Founder's Day suckling pig is served. Eight or ten times in the school year Headmaster Thayer leaves school to marry his alumni. Imposing is his record at socialite weddings, for loyal...
...Harkness has been a benefactor of many institutions: he has given much to Yale; his donation of $1,000,000 four years ago established the school of Dramatic Art which called Professor George Pierce Baker '87 from Harvard to Yale to assume its leadership...
More than a year ago the Dartmouth trustees voted that a hockey rink should be built as soon as funds were provided for the purpose. At that time it seemed probable that a group of alumni, headed by one already a generous benefactor of the College, would contribute toward the building of an arena to house an enclosed rink. The plan did not develop in time to build a rink for use during last season. Active agitation for a rink has been carried on in the meantime however, by a group of Dartmouth alumni interested in hockey. The donor...
...hesitation of the Corporation and its previous decision denying the use of the surplus in this emergency, may well have been in the hope that some further benefactor might complete the picture. Thus far, such an event has not come to pass...
...Tariff. Last act of Mr. Hoover before leaving his camp was to invite Mr. Burraker to visit him. Last month freckled, tatter- demalion, 14-year-old Ray (William McKinley) Burraker tiptoed into the camp carrying a pet opossum to his President. As a special treat, the President introduced his benefactor to a tall curly-haired man. Ray was not impressed?he had never heard of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Last week Pa Burraker and President Hoover settled down in a couple of chairs under the trees. The President said that he "and his friends" would contribute $1,200 to build...