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...award is granted annually for research in cancer producing compounds. The donor is the Lilly Company, of Indianapolis, a pharmaceutical concern...
Henry L. Shattuck '01, senior member of the Corporation, was revealed last night as the anonymous donor of $51,410 given to the University for study in Irish culture, history and language. The announcement was made at a meeting of the Irish Charitable Society when President, O'Connor rose and said, "He is a Harvard man who has given this fund to Harvard because he has the glory of the Irish race in his blood. . . . He is a splendid Irishman...
...announced by Norris P. Swett '37, student counselor, the sponsors are Charles Francis Adams '88, ex-Secretary of the Navy, Lincoln Filene, department store executive, Roy E. Larson '21, publisher of Time and Life, and Lucius N. Littauer '78, donor of the Littauer School of Public Administration...
...Pennsylvania Dutch parlor. On the first floor are the supplementary study collections: ceramics, glass, textiles, laces, metals, ivories, etc. The period rooms are the museum's pride. One of Director Kimball's favorites is an English Tudor room from a hunting lodge of Henry VIII. Its donor, staid Publisher William L. McLean of the staid Philadelphia Bulletin, would turn in his grave if he could hear genial Fiske Kimball halt in it, boom out: "This may be the very room in which Queen Elizabeth was conceived...
...gift to the museum could "buy" anything from a 17th-Century wrought-iron fire set ($50) to a complete stone choir screen ($150,000). When a "sale" was made, the gift was taken upstairs and installed in an appropriate period setting, complete with a neat brass plaque honoring the donor. Fiske Kimball's gift shoppe has less than $150,000 worth of unredeemed art left...