Word: donor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the possible change of scene was the lack of immediate funds needed to build a new center. A part of the Program for Harvard College, the proposed $1 million structure on Plympton and Mount Auburn Streets has yet to attract a donor willing to contribute a sizeable amount...
James N. White '21, donor of the gift, has expressed the hope that "other things being equal" the scholarship might go, from time to time to "students from Mr. McCord's Lincoln High School in Portland, Ore., or from other Oregon high schools, or from Lawrenceville in New Jersey, from which his father was graduated...
...prove it last week Director Malone put on a display of 60 ultramodern paintings (e.g., France's Hans Hartung and Manhattan's Mark Rothki), hung each picture from the ceiling on picture wire to provide an installation as nearly invisible as the museum's own structure. Donor Cullinan said happily: "The new wing is like a great stage which faces the city. Another might have built a nice, safe building. I wanted something that would be contemporary for generations to come." Touring the building in a wheelchair to spare an ailing hip, Mies agrees: "Buildings last...
Harvard College graduates will vote in the next few months to elect five new members of the Board of Overseers. Ten candidates have been nominated for the positions, including United Nations specialist Ralph J. Bunche and New York investment banker John L. Loeb '24, donor of $1.5 million for the planned theatre and drama center...
...Harvard University, which must bag some $27,000,000 more by June to meet the $82,500,000 goal of its Program for Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956), came the largest gift so far from an individual donor: $2,000,000 for scholarships. The anonymous giver, who went through Harvard on a scholarship, regards the huge sum, said President Nathan M. Pusey, as "only partial payment" for his education. To other men of parts who once had scholarships, Pusey observed that the college needs more such partial payments...