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...Rhodes Scholarships are endowed through the will of Cecil Rhodes, a British philanthropist, who founded the honor...
This all crossed my mind, ironically enough, while sitting in a building—maybe 700 meters from Big John—that was built to be Harvard’s student center. In 1899, Governing Board member and philanthropist Major Henry Lee Higginson announced his donation of “a great house on college grounds” that would serve to unite the divided student body. The lavish building was to be the center of undergraduate life, with “ample space for reading, study, games, and conversation,” a library, offices for all student...
British colonialist and philanthropist Cecil Rhodes created the scholarship in his will...
...education, preferably in Detroit. After doing some research, he offered $200 million to build 15 small, independent public high schools in the inner city. A few weeks ago, Thompson withdrew his offer after the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) led a furious, and scurrilous, campaign against his generosity. The philanthropist is in seclusion now--friends say he is stunned and distressed--but his is a story that deserves telling...
DIED. JOAN KROC, 75, a railroad worker's daughter who became a philanthropist known for her generous, often anonymous donations to causes ranging from youth programs to famine relief; of brain cancer; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The widow of McDonald's owner Ray Kroc, she took control of baseball's San Diego Padres after his death in 1984 (when they won the National League pennant) and ran the team for six years...