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...anonymous donor has enabled another Hungarian student refugee to live in Kirkland House next year, Master Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History announced yesterday...
...grant will cover tuition and the other major expenses of the Hungarian for the three years here. He may be selected "in a week or ten days," Carl Kaysen, associate professor of Economics, and chairman of the House interviewing committee, said yesterday. The grant was made after the donor had heard that the House raised, of its own accord, $1700 to support Gyorgy Heimler, a student refuges from Budapest...
After some negotiation with the U.S. Trust Company of New York, representing the benefactor, the donor agreed to extend the grant so that Heimler's major expenses will also be covered during his three years at the University. The gift was donated "on the condition that the Hungarian be chosen by a Kirkland House committee and reside in Kirkland House," Taylor said...
...large foundation for the $1.5 million he judged necessary for the establishment of a Society of Fellows. Both times his request was turned down as being inconsistent with the grant policy of the foundation. Finally, in 1932, Lowell announced that the requisite funds had been provided by an "anonymous donor" --who later was revealed to have been none other than Lowell himself. In his own private account of the Society's founding, Lowell records his failure to secure other financial sponsorship of the project, and then goes on to say, "The result was, there being no visible source...
Believing that Harvard could achieve unity in social life as well as in athletic endeavor, Major Henry L. Higginson, donor of Soldier's Field, granted a $150,000 financial bedrock for a building where "pride of wealth, pride of poverty, and pride of class would find no place." Choosing a site proved the initial trial to Harvard democracy; Gold Coasters pressured for a Massachusetts Avenue site, while Yard dwellers suggested a lot near Memorial Hall. In a gesture of compromise, the building was erected on Quincy Street, a four-minute walk for both rich and poor. The Harvard Union...