Word: donor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Georges Clemenceau was the donor of the largest gift, contributing $20,000, the entire proceeds of his lecture tour while in this country. In deciding to make the Association the solo beneficiary he gave this reason for his decision: "In memory of my student years in America I hope you will permit me to contribute the proceeds of my lectures to your fund for sending American boys to France and bringing our students here...
...enable the University to expand the scientific research work in forestry problems now being carried on at the University Forest at Petersham, Mass., an anonymous donor has made an offer, which has been accepted, of $100,000 for an endowment fund for the Forest...
...anonymous donor, according to the announcement, is making a simultaneous gift of an equal sum to Yale University for a similar purpose...
...Williams, the donor of the prize, is a prominent lawyer and city planner. He is the author of the New York city planning law, and has recently taken part in the legal survey for the Plan of New York and its Environs sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation...
Yale's magnificent new gift, from an anonymous donor, of seven hundred and fifty acres of woodland on the outskirts of New Haven, stands out in refreshing contrast to the members of half-given or useless legacies which are the bane of education today, embarrassing the beneficiaries as much as they inflate the names of the benefactors. Although it has been said that over half the title of college president is the office of continually passing the hat; it is more and more becoming the fashion for a captain of industry to justify his gains by largesse thrown...