Word: givers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken for granted when the clothing drive was instituted, that the articles given to it would be those for which the giver no longer had any use. In the donation to the cause of the Near East Relief of two Bibles in excellent condition and scarcely to be differentiated from new ones it would seem that the growing accusation of irreligion in the University has been substantiated. Or were they given on purely altruistic principles...
...That the amounts contributed should be a moderate, voluntary charge on the giver's current income and should bear such relation to his whole income as he should fix for himself...
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...