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Among the most valued paintings received was the "Visitation" by El Greco, one of the most unusual examples of this artist's works, the gift of an anonymous donor. To the collection of Florentine paintings three 14th century canvases were added by Miss Margaret Whitney, of Milbrook, N. Y. the water color collection was increased by a large group painted by Dr. Denman W. Ross and some of his pupils, and by a late work of Winslow Homer...
From an anonymous donor, the museum received ten drawings by Luini, Perugino, Raphael, Rubens, Van Dyck, and other old masters from the Oppenheimer Sale of art works in London last summer. Outstanding in a large number of gifts of sculpture were a monumental Japanese figure of the 15th century donated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, of Washington, a 13th century Gothic tomb figure in wood from Spain, donated as a memorial to the late Professor A. Kingsley Porter, and a bronze statuette of a champion stallion from Herbert Haseltine, the sculptor...
Until further notice, TIME will forward to Ethel Schroeder of Lyndhurst, N. J., donor of $50 toward the koala's welfare, all suggestions and contributions for the little beast's relief...
...practice of accepting gifts from sources not connected with the University. If it does receive outside donations, there can be no shred of excuse for not taking Mr. Dubinsky's. The intolerance displayed by Mr. Littleton's withdrawal cannot be regarded as the typical attitude of the average donor to the endowment fund. For Princeton to try to collect more capitalistic dollars by turning down the contribution of a workers' union would be a rank violation of the liberal tradition for which men like Woodrow Wilson made the College famous in time past...
Jesse Isidor Straus '93, who recently retired as American Ambassador to France, died yesterday morning at his home in New York. Together with his brothers Percy S. Straus '97 and Herbert N. Straus '03, he was the donor of Straus Hall built in 1926 in honor of his parents...