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Gathered at a luncheon in Manhattan's decorous Bankers Club one noon last week were 50 of the nation's Biggest Businessmen. The occasion: to collect the first $1.000,000 of a $2,750,000 fund to build and endow a new swimming pool, dormitories, infirmary, library, auditorium for the Shanghai American School. Among those interested in what Principal Elam J. Anderson had to say were: Martin Egan, staff member of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Mo-tormaker Walter Percy Chrysler; Herbert Lee Pratt, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and his Vice President Howard Ellsworth...
According to F. E. Robinson, president of the association which is raising $5,000,000 to build and endow the university, there will be no let-up in the construction of the administration building and it will be completed just as rapidly as possible from subscriptions already obtained from admirers of William Jennings Bryan. It will not be ready for use in September, however, and the opening of the school this fall is made possible only by arrangements to use the high school building. N. Y. Herald-Tribune
...Major Sonata, Schumann's Arabesque, Brahms' Variations on a theme by Paganini, smaller quantities of Chopin, Debussy, Albeniz-such was the varied course which Iturbi chose to run. Because he had played Mozart with the Philharmonic, his audience was not surprised to hear him endow the Sonata with a cool, fresh beauty seldom equalled. The Brahms technical difficulties were topped at a speed which was never bewildering. Debussy, despite its mistiness, had structure, clarity...
...stands almost unique, as a department of the University that is capable of supporting itself. The H. A. A. is apparently not only capable of supporting itself but also in a position to endow itself, and of all endowments the gymnasium stands out most prominently as a material facility sought by Harvard men ever since Hemenway proved itself insufficient two or more decades ago. It remains for the Corporation to decide...
...Another famed Negro to play the Moor was Ira Aldridge in the early half of the 19th Century. To endow an Aldridge memorial chair in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. Negroes recentlv subscribed...