Word: donor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amiable English gentleman who had never seen an American football game was responsible for the breaking up of the "Flying Wedge." He was the guest of Major Henry L. Higginson, Hon, '82, donor of Soldiers Field, at secret practice one day. A few weeks later he related to some friends in San Francisco the story of the practice and the "Flying Wedge" as he saw it. At a nearby table in the restaurant sat a Yale man. He could make nothing of the tale, but wrote to New Haven that Harvard apparently had a dangerous formation. The coaches put their...
...want to take this opportunity to thank an anonymous donor for a hand some bottle of what is labeled Halg and Halg. The mere mention of my having a cold elicited this offer of what the giver assures me is an effective remedy. My cold has long since gone but nevertheless I am very grateful for the antidote. As a matter of fact the bottle is here on the table as I write and occasionally I take a sip, in order that I may establish a sort of personal relation with my generous unknown friend. Whoever you are and wherever...
...Merritt '82, of Boston; D. W. Robinson '90, of New York; Miss K. A. Sargent, of New York; Colonel A. A. Sprague '97, of Chicago; Mrs. F. G. Thomson, of Pennsylvania; E. H. Wells '97, of New York; E. A. Wieser '28, of New York; and one anonymous donor...
...Chadbourne (lawyer, onetime of Chicago, now of Manhattan) and the Carnegie Corporation had already donated money for similar, although piecemeal excavations in Greece. Certainly Mr. Woods,* although rich, had no millions to give away. But he would not say. Professor Capps said only: "I do not know who the donor is. I might guess, but I might be wrong...
Especially is this true of the donor. With the decorum of true philanthropy, George F. Baker has allowed this monument to rise, has cooperated with Harvard in what to many still remain an educational novelty, but to the serious and sincere few is a significant advance in that ill charted march, made by that misunderstood plodder, education...