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These concerns did not trouble millionaire rail-road financier Jacob Henry Schiff in 1903, when he presented Harvard with its first Semitic collection and a building to put it in. Schiff, who hailed from one of Europe's most distinguished Jewish families, invested his money in a private war on anti-Semitism, firm in his conviction that "the gaining of a thorough knowledge of the civilization of those who have been before us means a better humanity and happier conditions for ourselves, and even more so for those who come after us." Harvard President Charles W. Eliot graciously accepted...
Legal difficulties over Harvard's treatment of the Semitic museum first cropped up when Dean McGeorge Bundy proposed in 1958 that the building be sold. Concerned about Eliot's original pledge to Schiff, a Faculty committee strongly recommended instead that the upper floors be rented out for no more than five years to raise funds for the museum. The Center for International Affairs (CfIA) moved in, and workmen literally tossed the museum's mahogany display cases out the window...
Gavin posed some of his most aggressive queries in the newsletters he began producing in the early '70s, nestled in innocuous cloud-balloons in the corners of his whimsical covers drawings: "Does Harvard's treatment of Mr. Schiff's gift warn would-be donors?" The great philanthropist had died bitter and disappointed in 1920 after seeing the University turn its back on his generosity...
Founded in 1903 by philanthropist Jacob Henry Schiff "to promote sound knowledge of Semitic languages and history," the museum struggled during the 1930s and 1940s and closed in 1958 to make way for the Center for International Affairs, which used the building for office space until...
...Here," said the Foreign Car Driver, pulling a ream of paper from his pocket. "Read some Stephen Schiff. It'll keep you busy...