Word: donor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repository of the Muses, that was lacking. Last week about a thousand guests, carefully handpicked, assembled in a handsomely remodeled building on 8th Street (Greenwich Village) to hear a curious assortment of New Yorkers-Alfred Emanuel Smith, Congressman Robert Low Bacon, Subsidizer Otto Hermann Kahn, Sentimentalist Christopher Morley, Donor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-speak over a nationwide radio hookup to dedicate the Whitney Museum of American Art. Herbert Clark Hoover did not come but even he sent a message...
...which was intended for it and which it very much needs, but it will also tend to discourage others from giving to the University. People will be little inclined to leave money to the College when they see the gifts of others used in such fashion. Further, to the donor's family and friend, this misuse of his bequest might seem almost a breach of faith...
...Berkeley. Three more units remain to be named, making eleven in all. Pierson and Davenport, the first of the units to be completed, have been opened this year, as was the case with Lowell and Dunster at Harvard a year ago. Edward Stephen Harkness, Yale '97, is the donor of the funds for the buildings...
...libraries are to become an integral part of the houses, they must make adequate answer to the demands of the times. Old books must be discarded and new books must be obtained. To leave this task to the casual donor whose interest is usually sentimental and whose gifts are occasional is a mistake. Either a permanent endowment for all the houses is necessary; or the University must create a yearly fund for each house sufficient to meet the demands of the ever changing tutorial reading lists...
...upper right panel, an airplane flies above a group of toiling sleelworkers. Below is an architect's drafting room. Directly below Rivera's self-portrait, talking over the work in progress, stands a group of three. Buttonholed between Timothy Pflueger and Arthur Brown Jr. (architects) is the donor of the fresco. William L. Gerstle. A modest little man in a derby hat. Mr. Gerstle appears to be awaiting the news that the architects have not been able to keep inside the original estimates. Rich Mr. Gerstle is president of the San Francisco Art Association, also of Apollo Consolidated...