Word: donor
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...upper floors of the museum building are the University's Speech and Germanic Language Departments, while the basement contains some of the WGBH studios along with surplus art objects. Among these latter, a number of nationalistic statue replicas given by Wilhelm II will share the fate of their donor's portrait and never see the light of the first floor. The presence of such exhibits would embarrass the museum staff, but only through an act of the Harvard Corporation could they be disposed of legally...
...gifts were made public yesterday by Nicholas R. and Eugene duPont III, sons of the donor, at a luncheon meeting of the Harvard Club of Wilmington, Del. The three bequests will be distributed as follows...
Among the Houses, after one meal, Lowell was the leading donor, with $17.34, followed by Kirkland with $15.83. Bunched together in third place were Winthrop ($12.62), Leverett ($12.57), and Adams ($12.21). Dunster House has contributed $9.54, and Eliot gave...
Last week the critics were taken up short. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it had acquired one of Dali's latest paintings for its permanent collection. Critical eyebrows shot even higher at the name of the donor: wealthy Chester Dale, famed for his impressionist and modern French paintings and an outstanding connoisseur...
Jawaharlal Nehru last week accepted new tokens of concord from Red China: two spotted deer, a couple of long-necked cranes, and 100 fat goldfish swimming in bowls. Nehru thanked Red China's beaming donor. Chargé d'Affaires Shen Chien, but took Shen aside later on to ask about another recent consignment from Peking. How does it happen, asked Nehru, that Indian Communists are now selling Peking-printed maps that show 57,000 square miles of India's Assam, neighboring Burma, and Nehru's own ancestral Kashmir as districts of "People's China...