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...festival, however, is not "All-American" or "Bigger and Better Music Week," as one might suspect, but the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Festival, so-called for accuracy's sake after the extraordinary lady who built the marble temple, provided for its maintenance, inveigled Congress into accepting it as a gift to the nation, and who personally arranges the programs, invites the artists and pays them...
...true inspiration." He declared, "I had the pleasure of meeting him, distinguished and courteous with a taste that was classical to an exquisite degree. He had a love for things that did not follow the fashion. It is most fitting that his memory should be honored in the gift dedicated to the attempt to bring home to others the eternal beauty upon which his own eyes were always fixed...
...series which Gilbert Murray is delivering as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has been given and, thus, there is officially attached to Harvard University with its manifold heritages of custom and convention--a new tradition. For no doubt can exist as to the future of this greatest gift of one who was an ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed but seldom realized summum...
...Commonwealth fund as the Harkness gift is called, has given me the chance to study your American universities and to compare them in method and policy with out British universities. Of course, my primary aim while in this country has been not to generalize about the differences to be found, but to find what universities can give most to the 20 students that come here annually through the Harkness gift...
...Powell points out that already more than one-fifth of the amount sought has been promised, although the campaign will not formally open until October. Of this as was recently announced $400,000 is from private donors and $750,000 is a conditional gift from the General Education Board. This is the board's first contribution toward legal research: and the fact that the program of the school has been endorsed by the board will go far, Mr. Powell believes, toward creating in the community a conviction that it meets a real need and promises practical results of permanent value...