Word: donors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward S. Harkness, donor of $13,000,000 for the institution of the Harvard House Plan, was in Boston and Cambridge during the last two days. He came to attend a dinner given by the Tavern Club in his honor last night at the club house, 4 Boylston Place, Boston...
...concern, a new partner was taken in and the present house established as Hart, Schaffner & Marx. The first year (1887) they did a $550,000 business; last year, a $35,000,000 business. Founder Hart survived his partners. Long interested in educational* and social work, he was a faithful donor to Jane Addams' famed Hull House on Chicago's Wrest Side...
...quiet, smoky room in Manhattan, 32 of the foremost bridge-players of the U. S. met in fours last week to play for the Harold S. Vanderbilt Cup. At a corner table the donor of the cup sat, ruddy, youthful, in a brown business suit. Expert Sidney S. Lenz was sick and could not play, but Wilbur C. Whitehead was there, smiling through pince-nez attached obscurely to his clothing by a neat black ribbon. Present were Ely Cuthbertson and his wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant...
...bound to be many duplications. Among graduate schools specializing in certain fields there are many whose aims and methods of teaching are the same, yet they are scattered throughout the country. In many cases research in any particular field is carried on at the college in which a donor may be interested, regardless of that institution's particular aptitude for handling problems in that field...
...gives little hint of his later manner. First prize at Carnegie is $1,500. But this year a special prize of $2,000 was donated by Albert Carl Lehman, Pittsburgh steel man, for the best purchasable painting. Painter Carena also won this prize, and his picture was bought by Donor Lehman. William J. Glackens, U. S. painter and illustrator, won the second prize ($1,000). His Bathers, Ile Adam, hot in color and thin in texture, is composed in a lively, anecdotal manner. Georges Dufrenoy. French conservative, won third prize ($500) for a richly colored, rather thickly painted still life...