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Rudenstine determined that funds would go to undergraduate education: $10 million toward undergraduate scholarships, $3 million to fund undergraduate seminars, and $12 million to convert part of Memorial Hall into a dining hall for first-year students. Named in honor of Annenberg’s late son, Roger Annenberg ’62, the hall has become a campus icon and an essential part of the undergraduate experience at Harvard...
...also enjoyed close ties to U.S. presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower onward. In 1969, Richard Nixon named Annenberg ambassador to the United Kingdom. Ronald and Nancy Reagan used to frequent his California estate. In 1986, Annenberg was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor...
...city council chose to honor him because he’d given an awful lot to the city over the years,” says Frank R. Cardullo, son of Frank N. and the current owner of Cardullo?...
...Attention, Shaws shoppers,” a nasal woman said, her voice crackling. “In honor of the heroes of September 11, 2001, the Porter Square Shaws will now observe a thirty-second moment of silence...
...that it is instructive to investigate the origins of the phrase. The first recorded use of “moment of silence,” the Oxford English Dictionary notes, was in 1942, when the American Sociological Review resolved to “express our regret and honor their memory by rising and preserving a moment of silence.” Whose memory, the venerable OED doesn’t say; there are space constraints. But clearly, the phrase came into vogue when school prayer was disallowed; the OED’s next citation is from a 1962 article...