Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million dollar fund, founded in 1948 by wealthy philanthropist Henry Kaiser and his wife, has been swamped with calls from various parties concerned about the mistake Jensen said...
Loker donated $7 million to the Memorial Hall project, and the University is using $12 million of philanthropist Walter Annenberg's $25 million gift to finance the remaining cost of the renovation...
Publishing billionaire and philanthropist Walter Annenberg will donate $500 million to groups specializing in public school reform...
Begun with a contribution from the great philanthropist and financier Jacob Schiff in 1889, Harvard's Semitic Museum enjoyed the support of Schiff and others, including President Eliot. But with Eliot's retirement in 1909 and his death 17 years later, the museum was in for rougher times. As Harvard Magazine delicately put it, President Lowell was "unaccountably hostile" to it--so hostile, in fact, that in 1926 he prohibited the curator from raising any funds for the museum at all. (The Harvard president who initiated the numerus clausus for Jewish students, Lowell was also unaccountably hostile to the appointment...
Walter H. Annenberg, a philanthropist who once owned TV Guide and served as ambassador to Great Britain, gave Harvard $25 million to fund undergraduate financial aid, undergraduate seminars and the renovation of Memorial Hall...