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...estimated $10 million has been left to the University in the will of Woods Bliss '00 for the development of the Dumbarton Oaks estate, Bliss gave to Harvard in 1940. of preliminary conferences on for the United Nations, the Dumbarton Oaks estate, near Washington. D.C. now houses the University's on pre-Columbian art and Byzantine studies...
Died. Robert Woods Bliss, 86, adroit U.S. career diplomat, former Minister to Sweden (1923-27) and Ambassador to Argentina (1927-33), who with his wife, the former Mildred Barnes (heiress to the Fletcher's Castoria fortune), in 1940 gave their historic Georgetown estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to his alma mater Harvard, which turned it into a center of Byzantine studies and a meeting place for statesmen, notably for talks leading to the birth of the United Nations; of cancer; in Washington...
...Washington, D.C., the University operates the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection for study in Bysantine and Mediaeval Humanities, and the recently established Center for Hellenic Studies...
...Peterson Elder, professor of Greek and Latin, has been appointed acting director of the New Center for Hellenic Studies in Dumbarton Oaks...
...grant will finance the staffing, fellowship, and research of the Center as well the erection of a building to house the Center's activities in Dumbarton Oaks...