Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alumni raised a total of $544,156, McCord disclosed. Over the last two years a special campaign raised $1,500,000 to endow Lamont Library...
...drama will soon have its first official backing at Harvard since Professor George Pierce Baker left the College to teach at Yale in 1925. A Committee of faculty members formed last night will begin to raise money next week for the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund, whose purpose is to endow a lectureship on the drama...
...proposed fund will endow occasional lectures to Harvard audiences by authorities on the theater. During his lifetime, Spencer, the late Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, invited such personages of Granville Barker and John Gielgud into his class room...
...delighted to call ourselves Goldthorp or Asbell or Richmond College, or anything else," Armitage said, "if it will bring in a real endowment. If anybody doesn't have a million dollars but would like to put a smaller sum to good use, perhaps they'd like to endow the library or the chair of English literature. We'd be happy to make the namesake fit their pocketbook...
...Heir Huntington Hartford, 38, heretofore known chiefly as yachtsman, playboy and young man about models (in 1947 he started his own agency), went in seriously for the arts. He filed formal application with the Los Angeles City Zoning Commission to build and endow a 20-building, $150,000-a-year "School for Genius" on 41 acres in the nearby Santa Monica mountains. The prospective student body: recent university graduates in the fields of writing, painting, sculpture and music...