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...Author is a descendant of Rabbi Gershom Seixas, who came to America in 1710 and helped incorporate Columbia College, a nephew of Maud Nathan, founder of The Consumers' League, and of Annie Nathan Meyer, founder of Barnard College. But as a Jew, Robert Nathan found things difficult at Exeter and at Harvard. His ancestry supposedly kept him from being president of the Harvard Monthly. As a poet he found the "good bourgeois Jews themselves" against him because he was "a bad business risk." Fear of what the "good bourgeois Jews" might say has made Mr. Nathan sensitive about...
Every private college has some person to do the dirty work of raising money. The man who has done Barnard's dirty work for the past 41 years is a tall, shy, Manhattan publisher (Ginn & Co.) named George Arthur Plimpton...
...even Mr Plimpton knows how much money he has collected. But when he became treasurer of 4-year-old Barnard in 1093 the college books showed liabilities of $30,000, assets of two bonds valued at $1,000 each. Now Treasurer Plimpton is 79 and Barnard, at 45, has property and endowment totalling $9,000,000 spends one-tenth that amount every year. Once while he was traveling on the Yukon River with the late great Jacob Schiff, that immigrant financier mentioned proudly that he would soon celebrate the 50th anniversary of his arrival in the U. S with only...
Last week Barnard turned a celebration of its 45th anniversary into a tribute to Treasurer Plimpton. Gathered at Sherry's Restaurant in Manhattan was many a friend of Barnard who had gladly furnished Mr Plimpton with money to help run the college...
Said Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler: "The inward and spiritual and immortal aspect of Barnard College has been contributed to by this rich personality-God bless him-and those who have worked with him and by him so long...