Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made up of Harvard graduates who played squash or tennis while undergraduates. Each year Barnaby mails out newsletters to all these men, giving information about the teams and players and asking if they would care to contribute to the support of these squads. A man may earmark his gift for either squash or tennis and also specify whether or not the money is for immediate use or to be used to augment a permanent, interest-gathering squash or tennis fund...
...Palmer Dixon Squash Fund put the permanent squash fund on a firm footing, and in 1956, seeing the need for a similar gift to aid tennis, Dixon established the W. Palmer Dixon Tennis Fund...
This building grant is part of a larger gift of $2,050,000, presented in January, 1955, for expansion in the field of international legal studies. The gift was also earmarked for two new professorships and a ten-year liquidating grant to be spent on research and fellowships...
Barzun concludes: "To expand for the sake of a mere numerical show would be akin to demagogy, especially if done in the name of civic duty. And from the truly social point of view it would amount to debasing the coinage-a poor gift to the unsuspecting students seeking our degrees and to the community that would accept them at face value...
...Russians, no doubt, admire London for his quaintly archaic socialism. Despite his limitations, Americans can still read him for other reasons-a raw vitality and a real storytelling gift...