Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georgia O'Keeffe, a plain-spoken lady who looks as severe as her own paintings, played a modest part in the festivities. She stood up when called upon and said: ''This is a gift from Stieglitz. It is for the students of this university. I hope you will go and look at these paintings more than once...
...foundation was not enough for the judge. When he heard that Jefferson Military College was just about destitute, he offered to turn over the income of his oil-spouting lands. It was a handsome gift -somewhere between $5,000,000 and $50 million-but it was tied with tawdry strings. To qualify for it, the school was to pledge itself to exclude "any person of African or Asiatic origin." It must promise to teach "through every medium possible . . . Christianity and the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races." Jewish students would be banned, added an Armstrong spokesman, unless...
...Stand on Freedom." Last week, when it appeared that college authorities would accept the Armstrong gift, tiny Jefferson became big news for the first time since Lafayette. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith denounced the gift as "probably the most vicious use of wealth that our generation has seen." The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League petitioned Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson to remove the school from the list of preparatory schools whose curriculums are acceptable to West Point...
...announcing the receipt of the gift, President Conant reported that the Corporation had decided to study the entire field of applied sciences and engineering. Conant has already appointed a special committee of scientists and businessmen from outside the University to conduct this study. The group has begun its work toward the preparation of a private report for the President...
...McKay gift was announced in a quarterly statement of donations to the University. This list inaugurates a new policy of acknowledging gifts every three months. Up to this time, the President has reported the contributions in his address on Commencement...