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...Gift. A bad play can often be rescued by good acting. Likewise both a bad play and bad acting can some-times be mitigated by good direction. The Gift is almost unique as a collection of the worst of all three...
This institution becomes at one bound first among Disciples of Christ colleges financially. The gift is without 'doctrinal strings...
...reason that the Admiral was not satisfied was that the Board had tied conditions to its gift. The salaries of the officials of the Corporation must be approved by the Board; the Board reserves control over any litigation undertaken by the Corporation; the power to fix routes remains with the Board; sales of Corporation property must be at prices and under conditions to which the Board consents. The Board, of course, retains its regulatory powers over shipping in general. Otherwise Admiral Palmer is to have a free hand...
...within one generation, and during a century and a half has been either entirely abandoned or employed as "senate-chamber, courthouse, barracks, carpenter shop, engine-house, dissecting theatre, recitation building, museum, lecture-hall, clubhouse, laboratory, general auditorium--everything but a chapel." In our architectural kaleidoscope this much abused solitary gift of an English donor, beautiful in its design, honest in its construction, still bears its silent witness to Harvard's persistent refusal to be stampeded into any schemes for a "permanent plant" of uniform exterior and supposedly adapted to the needs of future generations...
Shortly before the holidays a mysterious donation of $5000, in the form of a check on a Columbus, Ohio, bank was received by Graduate Secretary W. I. Tibbetts '17. No letter, of explanation accompanied the gift, and it was with some misgivings that he sent it to the Cambridge Trust Company for collection. In due course of time the Columbus bank reported that its only knowledge of the matter was through the receipt of similar checks made out to a score of Y. M. C. A. organizations all over the country. No trace of the anonymous philanthropist could be found...