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This year, because of its "club" status, the lacrosse team attempted to create a capital fund to endow the sport. Permission was refused this past fall because the University felt that an organization of friends of Harvard lacrosse would severely hinder ifts to the $82.5 million drive, creating, according to James Reynolds, "a fund within a fund...
...present Natural Sciences program does not seem the best way to endow the student with this basic knowledge. The non-science concentrator must be introduced into the process of hypothesis and experiment and must realize that the claims of science are limited: that measurement is always inexact; that the constructs it offers are not images of "reality" but working models for prediction; that statements are true until controverted by further sense data. The best way to appreciate this is not to learn about science but to learn science itself...
LONDON, Feb. 13--The exiled Cypriot Archbishop Makarios III is coming here next week from Athens to take a top hand in a three-power conference called to endow Cyprus with independence and peace...
...Program for Harvard College has received $25,000 to endow a scholarship for students living in South Carolina or attending schools in the state...
...Bliss Chair in Latin American History was endowed so long ago, Gilmore said, that it no longer supports the full cost of a professor. Gilmore stated that the money will be used for the guest lecturer next spring, if he is secured, or will be kept to help endow the post when a new man is found...