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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general charities drives conducted later in the year in the College and Law School will aid the Community Fund. The largest student gift so far is the $1,000 given by members of the Business School. GSAS students have contributed over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Feather Reaches 90 Per Cent of Total | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...most important single step in altering the deplorable local situation would be the construction of a suitable theater building. Though presumably the only way this could be accomplished would be through a large gift or gifts, the impetus for such gifts must come from the Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Theater | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

Under its first president, William Rainey Harper, the school that John D. Rockefeller had founded in 1891 with a $600,000 gift (and which John D. had originally thought of as just a good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worst Kind of Troublemaker | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...gift of $50,000 to the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research from the Mallinkrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis was announced yesterday by Provost Buck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $50,000 Donated to Chem Research; Niemans Collect Money for Center | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...accepting the gift, Provost Buck indicated a belief that "Management now realizes it can best serve the cause of private education as a free enterprise, if it provides free funds without attaching limiting restrictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $50,000 Donated to Chem Research; Niemans Collect Money for Center | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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