Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, under a LaGuardia-appointed board headed by hustling young James Marshall, son of the late famed Lawyer-Philanthropist Louis Marshall, the school are growing smaller, doing better. But the school system is still too big for its breeches...
...ghost-like Harvard graduate has remained incognito to all Harvard officials, including Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16, for over a decade. Bingham has corresponded with the unknown, philanthropist through the trust officer of the First National Bank of Boston, but has never learned the name of Harvard's great swimming patron...
Maintaining that Providence, Rhode Island, has violated the provisions of the will of the late Charles H. Smith, wealthy Providence philanthropist, the University filed suit last Thursday against the city to establish its claim to the estate, which at the time of Smith's death amounted to over $1,000,000 and now has an annual income...
...necessary funds were advanced by William Thayer of Boston, a philanthropist who had endowed Agassiz Zoological Museum, and the Herbarium came into being under the leadership of Doctor Gray, who ambitiously despatched specimen collectors all over the globe, and who himself engaged in careful research work and carried on a detailed correspondence with Darwin and other prominent scientists of the period. At present, the Herbarium is under the direction of Merritt L. Fernald '97. Fisher Professor of Natural History...
...Harvard pioneer body succeeds in becoming permanent, similar organizations may be created in other colleges patterned on the forum plan. A New York philanthropist, whose donation of funds initiated the Council, may grant money for these groups...