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...theater was nearly 1,800 years old; Herodes Atticus, an Athenian philanthropist, had built it into the side of the Acropolis beneath Athens' magnificent Parthenon. Many of its marble seats stayed unchipped over the centuries; others were replaced, and klieg lights were installed to light the way for modern theatergoers. One evening last week, as dusk settled over Attica's brown hills, the moon over the amphitheater competed with the electric lights. An audience filled the 3,000 seats for a performance of Mozart's Idomeneo, a rarely staged opera with an ancient Greek background...
Thomas Hollis, the London merchant-philanthropist, had nothing but good will for the struggling little colonial college in Cambridge, Mass., but he decided something would have to be done about Harvard College's library. The collection, he found in 1725, was "ill managed . . . You let your books be taken at pleasure home to Mens houses, and many are lost, your (boyish) Students take them to their chambers, and teare out pictures & maps to adorne their Walls." It was really a wonder that the library had managed to survive at all. "Such things," warned Mr. Hollis, "are not good...
Western Outlet. In a sense, Robert was forged out of history. It was during the Crimean War that Yankee Missionary Cyrus Hamlin, then engaged in baking and ferrying bread across the Bosporus to the starving patients in the British hospital at Scutari, met a traveling Manhattan philanthropist named Christopher Rhinelander Robert. The two men decided that Western culture should have an outlet within the Ottoman Empire. They began planning a college course that was to be in English; it would be "prosecuted without regard to nationality," and would be taught by men "of firm and symmetrical piety." In 1863, Robert...
...Then, on November 9, President Lowell officially announced that $3,000,000 had been donated to assure the inauguration of the "House" system at Harvard. Later it was revealed that the donor was Yale's own Edward S. Harkness '97, America's leading philanthropist. Rumors said that Yale had refused the gift because it could not meet the special time limits set under the conditions of the donation...
Silent Surrender. Famed Bahais are said to have included Queen Marie of Rumania, Actress Carole Lombard, Philanthropist Edith Rockefeller McCormick and President Wilson's daughter, Margaret, who, Bahais believe, gave her father twelve of his Fourteen Points straight from the writings of Baha'u'llah. U.S Bahais talk mysteriously of an anonymous fellow religionist high in the State Department, but it is possible that he himself does not know about it. "Anybody who believes in the universal faith is a Bahai, says Insurance Man Ellsworth Blackwell of the U.S. national assembly. "We consider some people Bahais...