Word: donors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surgeon, about to make a transfusion, scientifically matches a donor's blood to his patient's to such purpose that no shock results. In like manner Congress has ordained that Immigration shall be scientifically matched to the U. S. racial bloodstream...
...Chinese Buddhist drawings has also been increased to a full dozen through the gift of Sir Percival David of London, who has recently added three more. Sir Percival has also presented the Museum with a pottery bowl, one of a unique pair, the other of which remains in the donor's collection in England...
...near Providence he is a French-Canadian. And, like most of Providence's French-Canadians, he gave money in 1925 for a school fund which was to be distributed by the Rt. Rev. William A. Hickey, Bishop of the Diocese of Providence. Attorney Daignault and many another donor wanted strictly French-speaking schools. In the schools that Bishop Hickey built, English was spoken, though French was taught. Attorney Daignault and a few of his comrades were so vexed that they determined to sue Bishop Hickey for misuse of their good money...
...Governing Board is entrusted with carrying out as far as possible the wishes of Major Higginson, the donor, who conceived of the Union as a general club for Harvard men, undergraduates, members of graduate schools, alumni. The vision of the founder has never been realized; his ideal of a huge gathering-place for half a dozen college generations is one beyond the possibilities or desires of Harvard individualism; but the functions of the Union are no less important for being more limited. Its fate is a concern of all the two thousand five hundred members...
...establish the House Plan. Evidently such restrictive stipulations may be considered by some, as President Little in the case of the stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results. It is true that a donor's foresight is never quite equal to contemporary professional judgment in achieving a desired project, and may sometimes unduly limit such an achievement. Whatever may be the result of this definitely stipulated gift to Yale, this educational experiment is one that will be watched with great interest...