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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, in 1912, a retired shoe manufacturer named Gordon McKay gave $5 million to the then-Graduate School of Applied Science, Martin says. McKay guaranteed the future of engineering at Harvard...

Author: By Christine M. Griffin, | Title: Harvard Engineer Division On Rise | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...Gordon McKay made his millions with the machines that were used in making shoes," Martin says. "So he left his money, dominantly, for mechanical engineering...

Author: By Christine M. Griffin, | Title: Harvard Engineer Division On Rise | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...courts said at the time that...when Gordon McKay was alive, MIT existed, and he made the choice to give [the money] to Harvard," Abernathy says...

Author: By Christine M. Griffin, | Title: Harvard Engineer Division On Rise | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

With 3,47 left, Crusader guard Gordon Hamilton tied the game at 59 by picking Crimson captain Jared Leake (16 points) clean and laying in his reward. Two seconds later, junior guard Brian Lockhart (15 points) put the Crusaders up two by generating another steal and converting another...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Holy Cross Crucifies Cagers | 12/7/1994 | See Source »

Having wreaked havoc in the Caribbean -- especially in Haiti, where its torrential rains, flooding and mud slides caused more than 500 deaths -- Tropical Storm Gordon swept across Florida, devastating some of the state's prime winter farmland and killing six people, before heading out into the Atlantic, where, intensifying into Hurricane Gordon, it pounded the North Carolina coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week November 13-19 | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

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