Word: gifting
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...