Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is not mere theorizing. I feel sure that the system has actually done an injustice to one of my classmates (there may be more) in as much as it is to deny him an degree and is to give a degree to certain men in the "snap" departments who not only have been notorious loafers during their college careers but also have failed to make themselves worthy of the ranks of the educated...
Frock-coated Ezra Cornell sat calmly while his small-bore colleagues called him "selfish" and much worse in New York's Senate for wanting to give a half-million dollars to build a college on land which the Federal Government would give away. Beside him sat his wife, and young Senator White. The latter was interested in education because he had some. He had attended Hobart College (Geneva, N. Y), been graduated from Yale, studied in Paris and Berlin. He had taught history at Michigan University. He had read and thought about the old English universities. His father had made...
Senator Cornell turned one day to Senator White and said: "I am not sure but that it would be a good thing for me to give the half a million to old Harvard College in Massachusetts to educate the descendants of the men who hanged my [Quaker] forefathers...
...Give me a steak a la Earl Sande...
...School of Music (University of Michigan). The terms of bequest are similar. The money may be used for one or more of these purposes outlined in the will: to maintain a chair or chairs of music, musical history, or musical esthetics; to maintain scholarships or fellowships in music; to give public performances; to do anything-musical...