Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calculated the average College gift at $2.95, a figure that was "more than satisfactory," but refused to even estimate the average donation of these University members solicited by mail. "The figure would be absurd," he stated...
...served a summons on the nonplussed professor. Admitted Prosser: "This seems to be in order." He handed Poindexter $5. Then, pointing to the summons, he asked: "Now, what do you want me to do with this?" Replied Poindexter: "Keep it. That is for another $5. Thank you for the gift of this...
Those classes less than 25 years out of the College have a special agreement with the Fund, whereby all money contributed is accredited at compound interest to the traditional $100,000 gift each class makes to the University on its twenty-fifth anniversary...
Richard A. Gregg's short prize-winning poem, "To Icarus," stands well above the rest of Signature's writing in both scope and technical competence. Gregg, a past contributor to the magazine, has a gift for the manipulation of sound in poetic expression, which can be seen in such lines as "Proud parabolas upon the deep/Receding blue . . ." It is a pity that only one of his poems has been printed in an issue so barren of this kind of dynamic and beautiful writing. Joan Hyde's atmospheric "Night Picture" communicates through precise visual detail, but her other poem is less...
...principal event of the dinner was to be the "Swede" Nelson sportsmanship award to place kicker Everett Dorr of Boston University, with another presentation scheduled for Harlow. When the time came, Dick rose slowly to receive his gift, a nautically mounted clock and barometer bearing the inscribed affections of the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston. Then he moved to the microphone, uncertainly it seemed, and quietly he began to speak...