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Said Fund-Chairman Clarence H. Kelsey: "The general trend in making gifts to educational institutions is more and more toward doing so during the lifetime of the giver rather than to make such bequests in a will. In studying the recent benefactions of John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mr. Eastman, James B. Duke and many others, it will be found that these philanthropists are particularly interested in placing their gifts in the hands of their beneficiaries during their lifetime...
...downfall of Patrick Kelly, 10-year-old orphan from New Haven, Conn., was tragic. Patrick had arrived in Washington with 21 textbooks on grammar and spelling, including a "dictionary" by Patrick Kelly, containing over 4,000 words hard to spell. Somehow he had overlooked "blackguard," and when the word-giver pronounced it, "blaggard," Patrick said, "Huh ?", and then spelled it just the way it sounded. Every one liked Patrick...
...Stillman, who is a former pupil of Professor Norton, has specified that the word "Poetry" as used in his endowment should be interpreted in its widest sense. It is the intention of the giver that the term "Poetry" shall include, together with Verse, all poetic expression in language, music, or in the Fine Arts, under which term architecture may be included...
...excellently acted as hostess at No. 10 Downing Street for her father during his tenure of the Premiership, commenced, last week, to function as an editress. The periodical for which she is responsible is a weekly, The Optimist, called in a subtitle The National Organ of the Cheerful Giver. It is being run in the interest of the Margaret MacDonald* and Mary Middleton Baby Clinic. The price is one penny (Id) which is written in this case Id(onation)-one donation. In the first issue, Miss Ishbel wrote a leading article about the baby clinic. Other contributors were...
...questions which students of hers, in a sociologico-literary course, asked before the course opened. As a teacher of some experience, Miss Scudder doubtless realized that many such questions are put with feigned seriousness and interest by students either in desperation or in an effort to impress their mark-giver. Still, Miss Scudder felt that there was something significant in the fact that "heads black, brown, yellow, straight and curly, bobbed and fluffed" could think up queries such...