Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...library began with a $1.5 million gift from financier-philanthropist Thomas W. Lamont, class of 1892, promised prior to World War II and renewed in September...
...Lamont's gift met a pressing need. During the spike in enrollment after the war due to the GI Bill and returning veterans, overcrowding became a serious problem in Widener, especially during exams...
...days is not at hand. Graduation isn't the Rapture, and although they might see themselves as the elect, the senior gift committee isn't destined for any better of a life than the rest of us. Our lives until now have been spent in school, but the end of our lives as we have known them doesn't mean that our lives are ending. It doesn't matter that you won't make the "Alumni Notes" section of next spring's Harvard Magazine because, whether you just spent the last two hours vomiting sangria in a Barcelona gutter...
According to McCartney, Boyd's linguistic gift as a political storyteller was closely connected to his "low key" nature...
...Boyd still carries out the same job he always did, using his gift with words to tell complicated stories with ease and simplicity. Fifty years after his last class in a Harvard hall, his lessons in language are still with...