Word: donors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being offered by the American Hebrew, a New York religious magazine, for the best essay written by an American undergraduate on the subject: "How to Meet the Rising Tide of Prejudice." The prize, which is to be known as the Lazarus prize in honor of its donor, Mr. Arthur Lazarus of New York, has been offered in conjunction with the purpose of the magazine, which is to promote better understanding between Christians and Jews in America. Essays are not to exceed 3000 words in length, and must be handed in to the magazine's New York office by January...
...dedicated to Mr. George F. Baker, New York banker, the donor of the $5,000,000 gift to the Business School last spring...
...contradiction of a belief, still fairly current, that any creditable assemblage of early American art is impossible, this exhibition is presented. . . ." Thus, at the opening of the new American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, spoke Robert W. De Forest, President of the Museum, donor of the addition. A notable gathering listened, among them Lawyer Elihu Root, who also spoke. Said he: "We have here a chronicle of American history, more profound and more legible than any that the pen has ever created, for here is the concrete record that our forbears have left, not merely of their...
...York Times pointed out that the Nobel Prize committee, "on the whole, frowns upon rebels and pessimists"; that Tolstoy lived nine years and Chekhov four years after the prize was established (1901); that Gorky and Andreiev, each with a wide reputation, have never been honored; that the donor's prime purpose was to establish a forum for the genius of small and "backward" nations...
...committee to be best suited for professional production. The competition is open only to past or present members of "English 47," Professor Baker's course in playwriting, and the award in addition to the $500 entails professional production in New York, within six months, by Mr. Herndon, the donor...