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This week a new seven-story building was opened immediately behind the Frick Museum, with which it will eventually be integrated. No part of Henry Frick's original bequest, the Frick Library was the idea and gift of his daughter Helen. Stocked with some 45,000 books, pamphlets, catalogs and over 200,000 photo graphs, it was instantly recognized as one of the most important art libraries in the world...
...discrimination against residents of Cambridge who are students in a Harvard College makes it pertinent to call attention at this time to certain salient facts concerning scholarship aid to Cambridge students. Out of a total income of ten thousand dollars (listed two years ago as fifteen thousand) from a bequest by Daniel A. Buckley to the University a number of local students are given financial aid each year but it is hardly likely from the number assisted and the amounts received than all this money is used each year...
...Recognizing John Harvard's bequest as the first substantial endowment of the College, the General Court voted "that the college agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridg shalbee called Harvard College...
...perhaps be fixed by the fall of the president's gavel in announcing the passage of the vote of October 28, 1636. But if the founding is to be regarded as a process rather than as a single event, and more especially if in that process John Harvard's bequest gave to the College, within a month or two of its opening session, its first substantial endowment, then he is clearly entitled to be considered a founder. The General Court evidently felt that such a gift, at the very threshold of the College's existence and going further than...
...Pulitzer Prize winning novel for 1934, already betting heavily on Ruth Suckow's The Folks (TIME, Oct. 1), saw another feminine candidate loom on the horizon last week. Josephine Herbst's The Executioner Waits has little to do with the original conditions of the Pulitzer bequest ("wholesome atmosphere" and "highest standard of American manners and manhood"), but it conforms to the present standard: it is one of the best U. S. novels...