Word: donors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward William Bok, famed donor of the $100,000 Peace Award, put himself to much expense to secure a practical peace plan. Now one Frank Hendricks, a Manhattan lawyer, has attempted to put Mr. Bok to more expense. Mr. Hendricks submitted one of some 22,000 unsuccessful plans in the Peace Award contest. Last week he attempted to file suit against Mr. Bok for $1,100,000-$100,000 for the prize he didn't receive, $1,000,000 for the publicity he didn't get. The attempt failed because of a legal technicality...
...Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain is the donor of the Bessemer Medal; it will be presented to Professor Sauveur at the meeting of the Institute...
...with the result that he donated the $50,000 to Professor Pupin's alma mater, Western Reserve University. The fund is to be used in aid of the exceptional student. The financial status of the student receiving aid is in no way to be a consideration. Said the donor: "I feel persuaded that by helping one such exceptional student, I might in reality be helping, through the student's possible success, a greater number than if my bequest were large enough to give like assistance to the ninety-and-nine of less outstanding ability...
This is the thirteenth competition for the trophy which was given to the Topiarian Club by an unknown donor, and is competed for annually. The name of the winner is inscribed on the trophy, of which he has the custody until the next competition...
...during a century and a half has been either entirely abandoned or employed as "senate-chamber, courthouse, barracks, carpenter shop, engine-house, dissecting theatre, recitation building, museum, lecture-hall, clubhouse, laboratory, general auditorium--everything but a chapel." In our architectural kaleidoscope this much abused solitary gift of an English donor, beautiful in its design, honest in its construction, still bears its silent witness to Harvard's persistent refusal to be stampeded into any schemes for a "permanent plant" of uniform exterior and supposedly adapted to the needs of future generations...