Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world," will receive their first American showing in the Christmas issue of Life Magazine, if the editors' current plans are not changed. Credit for uncovering these art treasures must go to the Byzantine Institute, which is staffed and financed largely by University professors and alumni, and to Dumbarton Oaks, the Byzantine research center owned by the University...
...large part of the $500,000 Whittemore raised for the Institute was contributed by College alumni interested in Byzantine research. One of these, Robert Woods Bliss '00, also gave the University the $5,000,000 Dumbarton Oaks estates in 1940. Fogg Museum contributed gifts...
...present, John Nicholas Brown '22, member of the Visiting Committee to Dumbarton Oaks, is president of the Institute. He succeeded Robert P. Blake, late professor of Byzantine History. William Emerson '95, Dean Emeritus of M.I.T.'s School of Architecture, is vice-president, and Charles Francis Adams '88, former Secretary of the Navy, is treasurer. Soth T. Gano '07 holds the post of secretary...
...entered the diplomatic service in 1924, worked in Teheran, Rome and at Whitehall. During World War II he held an important post in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, then took charge of postwar international planning. He played a key advisory role at Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, San Francisco, did much of the British spadework for U.N. and the North Atlantic pact. Since 1948, as Deputy Under Secretary of State, he has been the trusted (and devoted) assistant to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin...
...addition, Blake served the University in several administrative capacities, holding the post of Director of the University Library from 1923 to 1937, and Syndic of the University Press. He also served, from its beginning, as a Senior Fellow of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., and as a trustee of the Harvard-Yenching Institute...