Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By 1925 she realized that the job of running the concerts, awarding the prizes, selecting composers for commission, had become far too extensive for her to handle alone. She therefore decided to transfer the administration to the Library of Congress, where she built a chamber music auditorium, Coolidge Hall. To...
The President's Commission on Higher Education, recommending a giant plan of federal aid a year ago, left a loophole for private colleges. On the premise that states should have complete administrative control, the Commission advised that states should also be able to decide what college is private and what...
The main discrimination in higher education, according to Truman's Commission, is economic. Too many qualified students cannot pay their own way. The Commission asked for federal scholarships and fellowships, as well as generous grants to the states to enable colleges to roll back tuition charges. It appears, however, that...
There is nothing modern about modern church statuary. Roman Catholic churches everywhere are filled with mass-production plaster replicas that perpetuate igth Century traditions of prettiness and molasses-smoothness. One reason is that few parishes can afford to commission sculptures on their own. Instead they buy from manufacturers catering to...
After spirited debates at several meetings last week, the American Association of Colleges voted to give a green light to an extensive program of scholarship aid as outlined in the report of President Truman's Commission on Higher Education. They added, though, that there must be no lowering of educational...