Word: gifted
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Seniors in each house began soliciting contributions last Thursday. All money donated to the senior gift goes to support undergraduate education, Petrovek said...
Bryant ranks second only to the Archives he built as a storehouse of University lore. "When Mrs. Widener gave the library," he begins, "she conceived of it as containing Harry Widener's quite phenomenal collection of rare books and manuscripts." In the gift contract, the University agreed it would not change or add a brick to the original structure, although it later explored and rejected the possibility of building in the light courts which separate the east and west portions of the Widener stacks. "The bridge between Widener and Houghton Library is, technically, a temporary structure," Bryant says...
...senior class committee voted yesterday to give seniors contributing to the annual senior gift fund the option of earmarking their money for a Steven Biko memorial fund...
...committee did not adopt a series of proposals from Michael R. Eastman '79, a senior class marshall, to call for a boycott on all contributions to the class gift...
When Attorney General Griffin Bell was cited for contempt last summer and threatened with jail for refusing to release confidential FBI files, Washington Lawyer Charles Morgan Jr. teasingly sent his good friend an unusual present. The Attorney General escaped the jail threat, but he hung the gift on his office door. It was still there when Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. faced a contempt threat as a result of a North Carolina civil rights suit. Bell, who would be called on to defend his fellow Cabinet member, forwarded the offering to Califano. "What a hell...