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Widener's collection of original manuscripts has been increased by a recent gift of papers in the handwriting of Joseph Conrad...
...making the gift of her estate to Yale, it was the wish of Mrs. Tompkins to further the cause of the "athletics for all" policy which has been maintained at Yale in recent years. As much of the property as could ever be used for athletics has been set aside. The residue of 200 acres has been asigned to a committee composed of Dean Graves, Professor G. E. Nichols of the department of botany, and Professor R. G. Harrison of the department of Zoology...
Straus Hall is a gift from Jesse Isidor Straus '93, Percy Selden Straus '97, and Herbert Nathan Straus '03, of New York, announced last spring in memory of their father and mother, who lost their lives in the sinking of the Titanic...
Julian Lowell Coolidge '95, Professor of Mathematics in the University, answers the question, uppermost in the mind of the Harvard graduate unmercifully harrassed with Class Gift and Endowment. "What sort of an institution is this anyway? How good a college have they got there in Cambridge? How does is compare with that college which we knew or thought we knew so well when we graduated, thirty years...
...steeple of the Park Avenue Baptist Church a man was capering in frenzied activity, engaged with two rows of levers. A maze of bright wires from the levers ran up into the bell tower, where hung a newly installed carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The carilloneur, Anton Breese, once assistant in the Cathedral of Antwerp, pushed a lever. The 9-ton bass bell sent its huge note jarring down the street like a slow blackbird. He pushed another, and the tenor bell, which weighs no more than an ordinary country dinner-clapper, spoke clear and high...