Word: kirstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis H. Nason, of Boston Assistant in Surgery at the Medical School and on the staff at Both Israel Hospital, has been named the first recipient of the recently established Louis E. Kirstein Fellowship at the Harvard Medical School, the University announced yesterday...
...Kirstein Felowship, to promote "scientific medical education," was established through a gift of $28,550 made last fall to the University by eighty-nine friends of Mr. Kirstein, Vice-President of William Fileno's Sons Company, in honor of his seventieth birthday and in recognition "of their affection for him as a man and their admiration of him as a humanitarian...
Back in Manhattan they formed a committee which enlisted such distinguished names as those of Photographer Arnold Genthe, Director Philip N. Youtz of the Brooklyn Museum, Poet Lincoln Kirstein, Choreographer Leon Leonidoff, Connoisseur Julien Levy, Designer Donald Oenslager, Publisher W. W. Norton, Critic John Martin, Radioman David Sarnoff. Patrons Edward M. M. Warburg and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Third in command was Miss Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's impressive sister and Sculptor Hoffman's longtime friend. With this backing,.Dance International steamed ahead to hold a competition among U. S. painters and sculptors, supplementing European and Oriental...
...Kirstein, vice-president of William Filene's Sons Company, received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard in 1933, with the citation. "A power for good in his city, ever ready for effort in the public weal...
They explained that they thought that "Mr. Kirstein could most fittingly be honored if they should act in his own spirit . . . to further the interests of education which are nearest his mind and heart...