Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-dozen teachers, about 50 students. It now employs 90 teachers, has an enrollment of over 1,000. In 1912 Mannes founded a settlement in Harlem out of gratitude to Negro Teacher Douglas, often gave recitals for Negroes at Hampton Institute, still serves as a trustee for colored Fisk University in Tennessee...
...Fellows are Cesar L. Barber '35, of Washington, D. C.; James B. Fisk, of Pawtucket, R. I.; George L. Haskins '35, of Cambridge, Mass.; John B. Howard '35, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; James C. La Driere, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; John C. Oxtoby, of San Anselmo, Calif.; and William F. Whyte, of Branxville...
...scholarships, hospitals, asylums, and all her other welldoing, Mrs. Rockefeller set aside a certain amount of her own Aldrich money for art. As a collector's budget, it was no vast sum. All the pictures that she has since given to the Rhode Island School of Design, to Fisk University, to Dart mouth College and to the Museum of Modern Art-about 1,000 important items-probably did not cost anywhere near the $1,166,400 that Andrew Mellon paid the Soviet Government in 1934 for one Raphael Madonna (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934 et seq.) Yet for her money...
Luncheon at LaFayette Hotel, Buffalo, 12.30 o'clock noon, Friday, December 27. Bradley Fisk '26, Secretary, care of Flint & Kent, Buffalo, New York...
...scoundrel, Dan Drew was finally cornered in 1870, by Gould and Fisk who caused an unexpected rise in Erie shares. Drew's fall thereafter was rapid. In 1876 he was bankrupt, his liabilities exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near...