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...Reverend Frederick B. Kellogg, formerly associated with Christ Church, conceived the basic idea of the Foundation in 1937 and persuaded Bishop Rhinelander to endow it. Today the organization, which supports itself primarily by donations, boasts a board of trustees including such names as John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek and Master of Eliot House, and Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin and Master of Kirkland House...
Self-Help. One-fourth of the company's 1,000,000 shares of stock will be given outright to the Liberian Government; a tenth will go to endow the Liberian Educational Foundation. As each subsidiary develops, the foundation will set up an industrial training program within the new industry. As the foundation's income increases, it will finance the training of Liberians in U.S. medicine and technology and ultimately help create a University of Liberia...
...marriage to a Navy C.P.O. While she waited out the six weeks that make divorce-seekers legal residents of Nevada, she got a job behind the roulette wheel at Harold's Club, Reno's immense, noisy gambling joint which spends some of its million-dollar profits to endow scholarships at the University of Nevada (TIME, June 17, 1946). She also enrolled at the university, which is only a few blocks from Harold...
...raging between the advocates of a stone monument and proponents of a "living memorial" that will further war aims, with holders of every position proffering excellent reasons why his suggestion is the fittest and the most practical. But the University, in the midst of a slow alumni drive to endow the Lamont Library, may look with favor on a simple dedication that can be realized within a very few years...
...contribute to the relief of distressed Japanese if we will, endow food kitchens for their children if we must, but for God's sake let's keep them out of our colleges and universities. They knifed us in the back once and will do it again if it ever seems expedient...