Word: endowed
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...have won over some of the committee members themselves. Amory Houghton Jr. '50--who has a controlling interest in Corning Glassware, Dow Corning, Owen-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.--arranged for those four companies to donate $750,000 which, along with the Houghton family's own check, will endow a $1-million Amory Houghton Sr. Professor of Chemistry. And Time, Inc. will donate half-a-million in memory of former publisher Roy E. Larsen '21--a donation egged on by Andrew Heiskell, chairman of the board at Time and a member of the Harvard Corporation...
From the snorting mimicry of airplane engines at kick-off to lyric invocations of the beauty of the sky at dawn and dusk, Peterson holds his audience in a trance. The most appealing of his acting skills is his ability to endow Bishop with both vulnerable humanity and dare devil courage...
Mary Cox, director of development and alumnae affairs, said yesterday the $10 million endowment and capital improvement goal will be used in part to finance the Quad Athletic Center, to renovate the Agassiz Theater and the Radcliffe gym for use as a dance center, to support the Schlesinger Library, and to endow a visiting artist program run by the Office of the Arts...