Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They will be, I think, extremely proud that you brought this gift to our people. All the rest of us will take a tremendous satisfaction that it has been handed over in the hands of one who is a militant leader for democracy and human values in the world today...
...copper known to the Mediterranean world came from Cyprus, where clumps of almost pure metal once lay loose on the ground. Agamemnon was said to have sailed for Troy carrying a brand-new sword of Cyprian copper. The weapon Alexander the Great brandished against his enemies was the gift of a Cypriot king...
...Gift of the week: to Chatham College, formerly Pennsylvania College for Women, $3,500,000 from the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. The gift, which must be matched by July 1957, will go into permanent endowment...
...steady increase in the size of the gift has been entirely a product of the initiative of each individual class. The Fund Council office never puts pressure of a class in the last stages of its campaign. The size of the goal and the amount of the final donation is determined by the class itself. McCord feels that in this matter, the relations between the Fund and the alumni remain much more relaxed and cordial. In the long run the College profits more than it would with high-pressure techniques...
...success of any drive can only be determined by the final tabulation of statistics. And this year the Fund broke its previous high of $704,000 as a total of 18,585 graduates gave $807,412 for an average gift of $43.45. These figures represent a ten-dollar increase in average gift in two years, plus a record 41.7 percent of the total graduate body which gave in 1955. This performance raised the overall thirty-year figures, so that now 36,000 out of 44,000 graduates--82 percent--have given $8,000,000 to the College...