Word: endower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woodcock, who is an United States attorney for the district of Maryland, said he had a fund of $40,000 at his disposal, part of which was available to endow the scholarships...
Harvard endeavors to present to her students a wide field of opportunity, to teach them not facts or formulas, but to endow them with the power to think for themselves, to enable them to discriminate between that which is essential and that which is non-essential, and to reach independent judgments. Justice Holmes has said that education "is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live...
...praiseworthy step on the part of Paul Block, owner of several newspapers, and a master in the art of advertising, to endow courses for lectures in journalism at Yale. President Angell, outlining the instruction, to be given there, has said that they "will endeavor to interpret the press in its-relation to the political, economic and broad cultural development of the country; they will not be directed toward vocational journalism...
...counters. Academies and learned societies are becoming more numerous in the U. S., but they lack the amenities of the common rooms of the English Universities, or the German beer garden. It has been suggested that the best way to advance learning in the U. S. would be to endow a tea room...
...benevolent alumni could be persuaded to give a few hundred thousand to endow badly needed chairs at Ithaca, we should have "a handful of thinking men" who might do something to make the various departments at Cornell foremost in their fields...