Word: donors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very far back, when the Union's deficits ran so high and its popularity so low, that those who held to Major Higginson's ideal almost despaired. All that has changed in the last few years. The Union is now beginning to be what its donor wanted it to be, an active center of University life and common club of all Harvard...
...There are now a score of ingenious ruses for extricating funds from fat pockets among alumni and benevolent friends-class insurance, class honor rolls, winning football teams, and (old but infallible) honorary degrees. Last week, headquarters of the Hampton-Tuskegee Endowment Fund uncovered a new trick, successfully worked upon Donor George Eastman, Rochester, N. Y., camera...
Attractions of the scheme: the interest received by donors is free of income tax until its aggregate equals the principal of the gift; income to the donor is guaranteed by the entire resources of the recipient institution; the institution enjoys an immediate increase in capital, especially desirable in contingencies such as the Eastman offer above cited; likely donors may be induced, and given opportunity, to make bequests, and see their fruits, before dying...
...endowment of any professorship bespeaks grace in the donor. Few bespeak also an interest equal to that recognized by Harvard men in the Theodore William Richards chair in Chemistry just established in his alma mater by Thomas W. Lamont, Harvard, '92, in memory of an elder brother, Hammond Lamont...
...track manager at the University and a member of the advisory board of the Intercollegiate Association, will be the toastmaster. H. T. Dunker '25, captain of the University track team, M. A. Cheek Jr. '26, captain of the 1926 University football team, and Mr. F. W. Garcelon LL.B. '95, donor of the annual University hurdles prize, will speak...