Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like taking part in a piece of history,'' said William Urry, archivist to the Dean and Chapter Library at Canterbury, presenting one of the least convincing arguments on taxation since the days when square-riggers carried marked-up tea to Boston. Noting that the Canterbury city council makes an annual grant to the almshouses in the nearby village of Harbledown, Archivist Urry wondered why. The city treasurer hadn't the foggiest. So Urry peered down through history, found the grant's origin nearly 800 years deep. In 1170, his dreams darkened by the blood of Archbishop...
Educators from five other institutions also joined the Princeton Council of the Humanities "in a preliminary attempt to define the areas which will be studied," Gibb explained...
While conducting the Ford Foundation study, the Council will invite scholars from other campuses to assist faculty members at Princeton. Four to six Princeton professors and consulting universities will be made Fellows of the Council each year, while other educators will act as conference participants or as visiting Fellows of the Council...
Students may designate their gifts for specific charities. The Student Council will distribute unspecified funds among suggested and recommended charities after the drive is completed...
Following Lattimore's speech before the U.N. Council, there will be a panel of three professors to pose questions and present their own views on China. One of the panel members, John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, called Lattimore "one of the few specialists on Mongolia." In fact, he said, "he is probably the only American specialist of his generation...