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This marks the first year that the Applied Science School has named the lectureships in honor of its benefactor, Gordon McKay...
...bolt had been in the form of Yale graduate and benefactor Edward S. Harkness '97, who had come to Lowell after being turned down by his alma mater. Yale had been unprepared for his offer to finance subdivision, but Lowell was already strongly convinced overgrown Harvard had to be split up. Ten seconds after Harkness had offered his financial assistance, Harvard had for all practical purposes become the guinea pig for large American colleges...
...hardly have any of our expensive foibles such as boozing and gambling and 'entertainment.' [Trujillo] is constantly quoted . . . and is almost invariably referred to as the Generalissimo . . . That, however, is only a native foible at worst and there is absolutely no doubt that he is a benefactor of the republic...
Even more far-reaching is a threat to the companies that has been boiling up for the past few months: a program Trujillo calls land reform. Having made the gesture of turning over 59 parcels of his own sugar holdings to loyal Trujillistas, the Benefactor now wants the U.S. companies to give up part of their land to local planters, for compensation to be determined later...
...loose roof tile or a leaky pipe, the U.S. companies can not be sure what their eventual fate may be. This week representatives of West Indies and South Porto Rico are scheduled to fly from New York for a meeting at which they hope to find out what the Benefactor really wants-and why the boss so often defended as friendly to business has been giving business the business...