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Last week University of Chicago also received a big gift, from no unknown but an ardent alumnus who still lives in a fraternity house (Psi Upsilon) on Chicago's campus. The donor: broad-shouldered Daniel Hedges Brown, '16, onetime Hearst circulation manager, now president of Morris Mills, Inc., inventors and manufacturers of "Germ" flour (TIMEX Aug. 15). The gift: 20% of the annual royalties on Morris Mills' flour making process. If, as Mr. Brown is confident, all U. S. mills adopt his process, Chicago's income from it will be $1,-000,000 a year...
...Gift of a $2,000 annual fellowship in modern art to the Fogg Art Museum by an anonymous donor, for the advanced study of 20th century painting, sculpture, architecture, the motion picture or other art forms either here or abroad, was announced yesterday...
...gift is for a trial period of three years, after which it may be extended. Paul J. Sachs, professor of Fine Arts and Associate Director of the Fogg Art Museum, will chairman the fellowship committee of seven...
...produced the consistently superior quality of work which would raise them to the very top, they have contributed much that is worthy of attention. Vivaldi, for instance, though primarily a violin virtuoso whose love of flash and dexterity often carried him to vacuous extremes, had command of form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical example of the formal clarity and facility of this less familiar music...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry was established in 1925 through the gift of Charles Chauncey Stillman '28, in memory of Charles Eliot Norton, who was professor of the History...