Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Education and the college's scholarship fund will get a big financial boost from the Class of 1924's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Gift, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
...decision is in line with a Corporation vote of last Spring "to add to the endowment funds of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences all capital gifts received from Harvard College classes making donations on the occasion of their twenty-fifth anniversaries...
...Union Trust Co. building on Grant Street, from which the Mellons run their family interests. In this window, at odd moments over the past fortnight, appeared an erect, grey-haired man in a well-tailored suit. Richard King Mellon was looking down into a large hole between Fifth Avenue and Oliver Avenue, where power shovels dug into Pittsburgh's dirt and a pile driver hammered away at a row of steel pilings...
...pull contemporary U.S. art out of the side streets of Greenwich Village and points east & west, place it in galleries where the public could see and admire it. For when Gertrude Whitney took a studio in the Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred to as "the ashcan school...
...members and 400 more were clamoring to get in. Dozens of artists including Painters John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh and Sculptor John B. Flannagan, had had their first one-man shows at the Whitney. Works by Whitney-sponsored artists were getting into museums, and selling on Fifth Avenue...