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...Nieman bequest, so far from having failed, has doubtless already begun to elevate the standards of American journalism." It has sent an important reverberation through the press of the nation, with the effect that today journalism may well become the province of highly educated men. Its effect cannot be measured solely in terms of the personal benefit derived by nine men; the Nieman Fellowships have begun to demonstrate to the American press the importance of education...
...greystone mansion on 53rd Street, in view of the back windows of the Rockefeller home. Membership ($10 a year) shot up by leaps & bounds. The board of trustees became a galaxy of the enlightened rich. Greatest of many gifts were the Bliss collection of modern French paintings, a bequest for which the Museum raised an endowment of more than $600,000 in 1934, and Mrs. Rockefeller's collection in 1935. The Museum acquired an energetic executive director, Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr., an able assistant curator of painting & sculpture, Dorothy Miller, a learned manager of publications, Frances Collins, to edit...
Because "she thought that Harvard had gone to the dogs" when she heard a rumor that "they had professors who were known radicals," Mrs. Caroline J. Adams of Palm Springs, California, decided not to leave Harvard a $1,000,000 bequest...
...lens instead of a mirror) but it is only 40 inches in diameter. For years Struve has pined for a big reflector. One day he walked into the office of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, told him that the University of Texas had received a bequest of $800,000 for an astronomical observatory. The money had been left by William J. McDonald, a Texas farmer who acquired an interest in science during his youth, an interest he never lost though he became a millionaire banker...
These fellowships were established in 1909 by the bequest of Mrs. Amey Scheldon in memory of her husband...