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This week the U. S. Government got a present: the largest marble building in the world. The building was the National Gallery of Art. The two creators of the building were not present at its formal opening : they were both dead - Donor Andrew W. Mellon, onetime Secretary of the Treasury, and Architect John Russell Pope. The building alone cost $15,000,000; the art masterpieces that went with it were valued at $50,000,000. The Gallery, which spread its great, windowless length 782 ft. along Constitution Avenue, diagonally opposite the Smithsonian Institution, had a massive rotunda patterned after...
...weeks ago several British M.P.s, feeling that the Indian situation was being mishandled, decided to go to India on an unofficial "goodwill mission." The mission's expenses were to be borne by private donations. When the mission's organization approached one prospective Indian donor by cable, he cabled this reply to London: "Prefer power for India, not good will...
Reason the new Tabernacle Church of Christ will be completely free of debt is its chief donor: massive, 74-year-old Columbus Banker William Glanton Irwin, director of a dozen corporations, one of those never-publicized U. S. millionaires...
Borrowing from the University should never become a gratuitous privilege open to anyone who has taken too many weekends. Where no definite rate has been stipulated by the donor, 2-3 per cent interest should be charged to cover defaults and costs of administration. A rate higher than that is unnecessary, and places an unjust burden on those who can least afford to bear it. Five per cent may be good business, but it conflicts with the very purpose for which the loan funds were established...
...vague place in Chinese mythology. Sometimes it has been used as a cosmic emblem and sometimes as a symbol of uncleanliness, lack of chastity. Standing, as it does, between Boylston and Widener, it can hardly symbolize the latter. The inscription on the stone tablet is an expression of the donor's high regard for Harvard; it praises education, peace, and good will...