Word: gifts
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...Indian College was a gift to Harvard in 1653 from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Indians and Others. Its purpose was to house Indian scholars, and Commonwealth Commissioners financed its construction. But the original college was destroyed to make way for Stoughton College, located on what is now the site of Stoughton Hall. The Commissioners gave Harvard a sum of 400 pounds sterling to construct Indian College. Members of the Native American Student Association estimate that interest accrued on this amount comes to over $2.5 million, and they'd like to see that money...
...September of 1972 a gift of $1 million from Mitsubishi Industries to the Law School established a chair in Japanese legal studies with an endowed professorship. One year later, the Japan Foundation--an organization sponsored by the Japanese government--announced it would donate $10 million to American universities, one-tenth of which was presented to Harvard by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka on January 16, 1974, Toyota joined with Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.--the manufacturer of Datsun cars and trucks--in giving the institute an additional million dollars aimed at construction of a new building near the Yenching Library. This...
...gift, $1 million of which was presented on Thursday to President Bok by Berthold Beitz, the foundation's chairman, is the largest ever made to an American university by a German foundation...
Guido Goldman '59, executive director of the Center for European Studies and professor of Government, negotiated the gift for Harvard. Goldman is a personal friend of Beitz and several other members of the Foundation...
Beitz told President Bok Thursday that the gift was intended to help strengthen the relations between America and Europe. The Foundation did not stipulate which countries the money is used to study...