Word: donors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College Library, and is now on exhibition in the display cases of the Treasure Room. The gift was made in memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, a lineal descendant of John Harvard, who was killed in action at Boisleux-Au-Mont on March 30, 1918. The donor has requested that his name be withheld from publication. The addition of this recent collection makes the University collection one of the most complete in existence...
...Paris, Tex., the will of the late William J. MacDonald, banker, was filed for probate. To relatives, bequests of $120,000. To the University of Texas, $1,400,000- for an astronomical observatory to bear the donor's name. Dean Harry Yandell Benedict, Professor of Astronomy, declared: "This gift will make the name of Mr MacDonald as imperishable as the science of astronomy itself and will attract scientists who will spread Mr. MacDonald's name to every part of the world...
...Topiarian Club Cup was given by an anonymous donor in 1911 to be awarded annually to the student in the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture who, in the opinion of the Examining Board, submits the best drawing on an announced problem in Landscape Architecture. This year the competition was open for only four days and the problem was a new design of the Boston Public Garden. It was assumed that the Park Commissioners of the City of Boston were inviting competition for a new design among leading landscape architects of the country...
...donor of the peace prizes in 1924 similar to that awarded by Mr. Bok of Philadelphia. They were awarded for the best plans submitted for achieving and preserving world peace...
...bundles piled up for him. Some few interested him. In spite of "Don't Open Until Christmas," he ripped them open and peeped. Mrs. Coolidge received for Christmas a fur coat made of caracul from Austria, platinum fox from Russia. The Fur Manufacturers and Merchants Association was the donor. Colonel John C. Coolidge at Plymouth, Vt., received a box of Christmas edibles from the White House, not to mention about 50 Christmas cards from friends...