Word: donors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countee Cullen, 1G, has been awarded the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize for 1925. The judges of the Poetry Society of America's Undergraduate Contest, Sara Teasdale, George Sterling, and the donor, unanimously decided that Cullen, who is a Negro, should receive the $150 prize. For two years Cullen had held second place. When he wrote the poems that brought him the award, he was an undergraduate at New York University...
President Keppel of the Carnegie Foundation took occasion to rap the regents of the University of Wisconsin for turning down an offer of a $600,000 endowed medical school from the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). The regents' reason was fear of domination by the donor, and their resolution included all incorporated foundations. Said President Keppel: "It is hard to conceive that a fair-minded man or woman should fail to realize that the broadly co-operative character of these operations offers the most effective safeguard, if safeguard were needed, against any employment of these trust funds...
...offer to build a new baseball cage was made two and a half years ago, in May, 1923. The donor has desired to remain anonymous. A year ago last spring plans were made to build the cage at the western end of the old tennis courts, near the stables. Lines were drawn there and posts erected...
...site where the cage will probably be built is outside the open end of the Stadium, covering a number of the tennis courts at the eastern end. The donor and engineer were ready to start work this autumn, but lack of definite word from the Planning Board will keep the cage from being started until next spring. It was also considered that work this fall would be in the way of the crowds attending the important football games...
...interesting paintings of the Spanish School are now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. One, a Madonna and Saints with a kneeling Donor is a work of the XV-XVI Century Castillian School. The other is a Saint Dominick by Domenico Theotocopuli, better known as El Greco, who lived from about...