Word: donor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rotch, built in 1891, was originally called the Carey Athletic Building in honor of its donor, Henry R. Carey...
...Each donor is represented by 50 bookplates. When a book with a bookplate in it wears out, another bookplate will be put in a new book...
...formal opening of the now dormitory, the gift of Boston broker John Farwell Moors '83, took place December 11 in a ceremony also honoring the donor's 50 years as a Radcliffe trustee...
...formal opening of the now dormitory, the gift of Boston broker John Farwell Moors '83, took place December 11 in a ceremony also honoring the donor's 50 years as a Radcliffe trustee...
...money came, the donor was lavishly thanked: "Your name was in every mouth; some wondered at your magnificence, some praised your exalted virtues . . . and indeed, that you are but mortal is our bitterest thought." But if, after the death of a longtime benefactor, no gift was forthcoming from his estate, Oxford's agents tried a sterner approach: they badgered the executors. Sometimes they hinted that the executors had misappropriated gifts meant for the university; sometimes they went to court...