Word: donor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of its inception, of the first meeting between Mr. Lowell and Mr. Harkness, the donor of the money to build the Harvard Houses, is now generally known, and few stories in modern academic annuals are more dramatic. Mr. Lowell had thought out the House Plan down to architects' blue prints which were already in existence when a stranger walked into University Hall and offered the funds to make this intellectual creation a concrete reality of intellectual ferment...
...inquisitive boy," a nuisance to his aunts. 'He probably proceeded into chemistry instead of some other science because his older brother, who was studying chemistry, answered questions, helped him equip a child's chemistry laboratory. That older brother is now Dr. Arthur Comings Langmuir, shellac & glycerine expert, donor of the $1,000 Langmuir prize for precocity in chemistry...
Through the generosity of an anonymous donor, a musical library of phonograph recordings has been made possible. Members of the House committee together with A. T. Merritt, Tutor in Music in Eliot House, have already selected the recordings, and an electrical phonograph has been ordered. A room has been set aside in the basement of the library entry in which the records may be played. A special feature of this music room will be a collection of orchestral scores of well-known compositions, to be used with the records...
Died. Helen Brooks Davis, 50. wife of Dwight Filley Davis, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of War. onetime (1929-32) Governor General of the Philippines, donor of the Davis Cup for international tennis; of arthritis; in Berlin...
...institution already has an endowment of some $30,000,000. John Pierpont Morgan gave it $2,000,000. George Fisher Baker & his late father jointly gave an-other $2,000,000. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial also gave $2,000,000. But the largest donor and virtual creator of the medical centre was the late generous Payne Whitney. His gifts totaled some...