Word: donors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another donor, Robert Francis Gardiner, has sold his blood 73 times in nine years. Shrewd, he has assembled a gang of 300 robust Bowery down-&-outs, dock-wallopers, truck drivers and chauffeurs whose blood he sells to New York hospitals. Outdoor workers serve best...
Announcement was made yesterday of the gift to the Harvard Gun Club of a silver trophy to be awarded annually to that member of the Club who scores the best 100 in a handicap shoot of 50 birds straight traps and 50 birds skeet. The donor of the cup, G. H. Dorr '97, is father of R. H. Dorr '29, captain of the Club skeet team...
...hard to justify Mr. Rockwell Kent's assertion that the intention of the donor has been violated in the recent award to "the advertisement most effective in the use of illustration." It is hardly credible that Mr. Bok should have sat idly by while this award has been four times made to the firm or person responsible for the advertisement rather than the painter of the picture utilized. Aside from the fact that the wording of the conditions seem to justify their present construction, the tacit assent of the donor to this arrangement should certainly be sufficient justification...
...unfortunate that an interested individual, especially one who had been the recipient of the voluntary generosity on the part of the firm involved should take it upon himself to interpret the will of the donor without an express statement from him. Mr. Kent's position in his profession can only increase the regret that he has taken it upon himself to becloud a policy that would seem to be clearly d both by precedent and a common sense interpretation of the conditions governing the award...
...this setting poets and critics will be brought to speak to gatherings of Harvard undergraduates. No more than 40 or 50 students will be expected at a time in order that the donor's wishes for small and friendly conversations, rather than platform speeches, may be carried out. Only undergraduates will be present at these talks...