Word: gifts
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...also told Stewart that he would try to raise money for all the Houses to equal the Newmark gift...
...announcement last week of the $20,000 Eliot House gift--earmarked for a new program in the performing and creative arts--encouraged freshmen to apply to Eliot House. The masters said the gift gave Eliot an unfair advantage as the Houses strive to make all the Houses equally attractive to freshman applicants...
Zeph Stewart, master of Lowell House, said yesterday that there was no reason Bok or Rosovsky, both in office less than three years, should know of the policy. He said that Newmark's offer was the first large gift to a House since Bok took office in June 1971, so "the situation never came...
Last year the Agnelli Foundation and a number of other donors in Italy provided additional funds for the purposes of the De Bosis endowment. This generous gift has made possible the welcome appointment of Professor Prodi of Bologna this semester. Henceforth, the Committee hopes to be able to invite a lecturer on some aspect of Italian civilization every year. Myron P. Gilmore Professor of History
Before his exile, Solzhenitsyn spoke of his "relief and calmness" in the accomplishment of his mission. This he perceives as a memorial to the dead of the archipelago. But his books are also Solzhenitsyn's gift to the living. Mindful of George Orwell's dictum that he "who controls the past controls the future," he has already wrested Soviet history from those bent on obliterating it and restored it to his people. In the future, he may also succeed in quickening the conscience of both the oppressed and the oppressors in his unhappy country. For, as he wrote...