Word: donors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first to recognize the value of sending students to foreign centers of learning was Cecil Rhodes, donor of the scholarships that bear his name. They have been eulogized by editorialists, educators and politicians many times since then, but nothing could show their value more plainly than this tribute from the men who have been helped by them. In the comparatively few years that have elapsed since their stay at the university, many of them have risen to prominence in their fields of activity, and even without material results to show for it there can be no question that the cultural...
...Irene & Alice Lewisohn, founders of the Neighborhood Playhouse, are nieces of Adolph Lewisohn (copper), donor of the famed Lewisohn Stadium, collector of Degas and Bellows pictures...
...interest manifested in the University swimming meet yesterday afternoon is ample-proof of the need of a new pool. The anonymous donor of the necessary sum apparently made his gift just in time. Athletics for all is an excellent slogan, but it has already exceeded its physical bounds, and the most obvious overcrowding anywhere is at the Big Tree...
...some minor gestures, as witness the Weeks Bridge, but they can only be called casual pittances flung to the Business School shamefacedly by men whom we know from careful records have more than that. Such degrees as given to Mr. Walter B. Baker can only be presented when the donor is on the verge of bank ruptey. In looking over the treatment it has given us, Capital has little of which to be proud...
...Lord, Director of the Budget, hinting sternly that his veto of the proposed tax cut as too large was no impossibility. C. From one Luke W. Duffey, President Coolidge received gratis the deed to a 176-acre onion farm in Pulaski County, Ind. Taxes and mortgage interest were due. Donor Duffey explained that he had found it impossible to farm at a profit under present conditions and advised the new owner to exercise extreme efficiency or he would get deeper into debt...