Word: endowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an all-time high (15,616) in the number of contributors, the Harvard Fund was up $8,000 from 1950 and was second only to 1948's dollar total of $544,000 given during the last year of a special drive to endow Lament Library...
High University officials have also indicated that they would not authorize construction of a rink until it received enough money to endow it for upkeep. The H.A.A. estimates it would cost $10,000 a year to keep a rink going...
Buried here is Buckley's overwhelming fallacy. He says "...A researcher ought to be free to seek out his own conclusions, to make his own generalizations on the basis of his discoveries...It is a self-contained paradox to endow a researcher or a research organization with funds and to assert simultaneously what will come out of the investigations for which the funds are to be used. For obviously under such a formula, there is no reason for investigation to be undertaken at all." What Buckley terribly forgets is that the classroom is just as much a research organization...
...views of other faculty members? Would the letter of one student to another he interpreted as an attempt to express the views of all students? Certainly not, because the recipient would be well aware that the sender was not authorized to speak for all students. Shouldn't we endow the faculty with at least as much political acumen as the student body...
...Some men endow a hospital or put up a monument to mark what they consider a miraculous escape, but Anderson wrote a book, The Other Side of the Bottle (A. A. Wyn; $3), published last week as part of his contribution to the saving of other alcoholics. Longtime Pressagent Anderson did publicity for the Medical Society of the State of New York soon after he was dried out, became its executive secretary in 1945. He has pitched in as a director of the National Committee on Alcoholism to help doctors reach and treat more & more of his fellow sufferers...