Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single." Her bustling mother said: "We would rather be honest about it." Heanor's town council opened a subscription for the babies, itself led the donations with ?25. To Norah at that moment, life had never seemed so exciting. Even the local cinema sent a gift: "Flicker tickets for life...
Last week Fisk was preparing to install a Van Vechten gift, the George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music and Musical Literature, which may be the South's best musical library. It includes letters (by Gershwin, Puccini, Humperdinck, Gounod, Meyerbeer-but none by Negro musicians), operatic and other scores, U.S. first editions, a vast heap of recordings, bursting scrapbooks of U.S. musical history. All this can hardly fail to seduce white scholars from Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Chapel Hill and Duke Universities...
...Yale another Van Vechten gift, the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of material by and about Negroes, has already been in place two years. It attracts many Negro scholars, has trebled in size since it was installed. It includes the books, manuscripts and photographs which Van Vechten began accumulating while writing Nigger Heaven, the novel which put Harlem on the U.S. cultural map. It includes, too, unique Negro musical material...
...doomed . . . It's good to learn that "Holy" has found "nothing conducive of the R. A." at his new assignment. According to the A. P., however, Northwestern weekend liberty will, in the future, be restricted to the hours of 1000-1500 Sunday, which may alter the situation . . . The Class Gift Committee has added another to the will and testament list. YOU may contribute by sending your donation to The Lucky Bag, specifying which particular type 3-minute-egg-timer you recommend . . . It may be spring, but the strains of Shoo Shoo Baby coming from Bingham's Office these days continue...
...Yard and attended sermons on spots that corresponded to the Law School and Sever. Hollis became a symbol of Harvard's contribution to the effort of the new nation. When the men left, they left a sign, which has become a plate, recording the service rendered by Thomas Hollis' gift...