Word: endowent
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...Turkish government has given $750,000 donations to Harvard and three other leading universities to endow chairs in Turkish studies, a move which has raised questions that the government may be trying to control the way Turkish history is taught...
...gift means that Harvard now has half of the $3.1 million it needs to endow a professor of Turkish Studies, according to the Boston Globe...
...possible, funds might be raised to endow the Senior Tutorships, making the teaching half 'free' to departments... Because the Senior Tutorship would not be dependent upon a pre-existing Harvard 'half,'" it would then be advertised nationally...
President Neil L. Rudenstine has a clear vision of the museums' priorities. "The needs of Harvard's art museums at this time are substantial: to maintain our collection properly; to provide proper space and endowment for the Straus Center for Conservation; to create a critically important climate-control system for the Fogg Art Museum; and to endow key curatorships and programs...
During her tenure as director of the Expository Writing Program, Nancy Sommers has done a commendable job improving the program. While the Sosland gift rewards Sommers' innovation, the staff wonders if undergraduate writing is served best by the decision to endow the directorship. The first Sosland Prize--$500 and a copy of Dante's Inferno--represents only a small fraction of the family's gift to Harvard. If the Sosland's $2 million gift were deposited in a modest savings account, the money awarded to students each year would be recouped in fewer than five days...