Word: donor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the door donor was "too closely allied with a government which had interfered seriously with educational liberties," Harvard university has refused the $10,000 gift offered by Ernst Hanfstaengl, a Harvard alumnus and Nazi press chief. The gift was offered in response to a form letter sent out by the University to its alumni asking for assistance in the development of its national scholarships. This gift would make possible ten years of study at the University of Munich for American students. For the same reason, according to official announcements, the university administration last year refused a smaller gift from...
...fact that the University would act as a medium between the donor and the selected student does not imply credence in the political beliefs of Germany any more than the granting of a Harvard scholarship to a resident of Alabama implies support of Negro suppression in southern United States. And the student's acceptance of the scholarship neither entails any obligation to Herr Hanfstaengl nor evinces approval of his character. This scholarship is an opportunity for intimate investigation into the thoughts and customs of Europe; and to construe any other meaning is to slander the student's intelligence. The very...
Seven million dollars-the largest gift to higher education since George Eastman left 14 Kodak millions to the University of Rochester in 1932-fell last week into the lap of Chicago's Northwestern University. To Northwesterners the- size of the gift was no more gratifying than the donor, the late Roger Deering of the third generation of Chicago's famed, harvester- making Deering family. Roger's grandfather, William Deering of Maine, was nearing 50 when he visited the Midwest, found his old friend Elijah Gammon struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah...
...citrate to prevent clotting and preserved by electric refrigeration for possible use at any time before, during or after childbirth The principal advantage of the banked blood method obviously is one of speed in supplying immediate transfusions without the sometimes fatal delay of searching for a professional or other donor of suitable type. Because the blood is taken from the patient at least a week before birth is due, there is ample time for the body to furnish new blood, thereby alleviating danger of weakness...
Died. Samuel Ryder, 77, head of Ryder " Sons, seedsmen, donor in 1926 of the Ryder Cup for biennial competition between British and U. S. professional golfers; of pneumonia; in London...