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...take the strongest possible objection to the sentence you have published about me in the Registration Issue of The Harvard Crimson ("Harvard Stays Mum on Greek Bequest"). The sentence reads, "Kaiser would neither confirm nor deny the report..." That is a deliberately misleading sentence, inasmuch as your use of "would" implies that you asked me to confirm or deny a report that the Greek government had given Harvard one million dollars. The simple fact is that your reporter never even mentioned such a rumor in either of our two telephone conversations...
...Indian College dispute stemmed from a bequest of between 200 and 400 pounds made to Harvard in 1653 by the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England. The money, which almost doubled Harvard's endowment, was earmarked for a dormitory to house Indian students...
Charles Chauncey Stillman, Class of 1898, gave the University a $200,000 bequest in 1925 with the idea of founding the chair. According to the terms of the gift, the University was to choose each year "without limits of nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation," a lecturer on poetry. But this didn't mean poetry in the narrow sense of verse, meter and rhyme. The bequest explicitly states that "Poetry shall be interpreted in the broadest sense, including, together with Verse, all poetic expression in Language, Music, or the Fine Arts, under which term Architecture...
...Stillman donation finally gave Norton the public commemoration he so richly deserved, and it also furthered the study of his wide interests in the humanities. According to the bequest, the Chair is supposed to alternate each year between "the various literatures" in one group and the Fine Arts and Music in another. Each year an ad hoc committee of five is appointed by Harvard's president to decide on the following year's visiting professor. Four members, three of whom are associated with the group in whose field the lectureship falls that year, and one from the other group...
...Fogg has opened an exhibit on the second floor of Chinese jade--originally, I believe, part of the Grenville Winthrop bequest. The Chinese call jade "The Stone of Heaven," but I'm afraid the Fogg show takes too scholarly an approach--I got the feeling that, unless you're a collector, the notes on the show and the catalogue would not be of much interest. But the stone, regardless of what is done to it, is still beautiful, so go and see the show for that...