Word: donor
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...anonymous donor of a sum to be used for the creation of a fellowship for the development of at least one public servant who is truly entitled to that name should meet with the hearty approval of the College and the country at large...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee and Metropolitan Opera director). Last week the Museum announced that its endowment fund had reached $600.000, that Brother Cornelius had accepted this as earnest of another $150,000 to be forthcoming. Thus did the Museum become permanent owner of the Bliss collection. Large single donor ($100,000) was the Carnegie Corporation. At Depression prices, the Bliss collection is worth about $750.000. It contains eclectic examples of all the modern French, a few of the modern U. S. painters. Only the Barnes collection in Philadelphia has more than its 23 Cezannes...
...Washington, D. C., author of the ''expanding universe" theory which views the present universe as shrapnel of one atom exploded some five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance as to boost Belgium's prestige. Donor of the award, second only to the Nobel Prize, is Emile Francqui, banker, one of Europe's dozen richest men. ¶Died. Hugh Cosgro Weir, 49, publisher, author; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A telegram to Carl Laemmle Sr. brought Mr. Weir a job writing scripts for Pearl White...
...committee of three has been named by the anonymous donor to administer the fellowship. These men who will receive applications for the award, are Carl J. Friedrich and Rupert Emerson '21, assistant professors of Government, and Paul M. Herzog. They have assumed the position of trustees and for the next few years will investigate the chances of enlarging the project. If the donor feels that the experiment has been successful, he is willing to enlarge his donation, one of the committee stated last night...
There will be six lectures on the series, coming on Tuesdays during the next two months. They were made possible through the gift of an anonymous donor, and are given in memory of Lauro de Bosis, a young Italian poet, who lectured at Harvard and several other universities...