Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico, handsome Governor Clyde Tingley halted a move to endow a hospital named after his late wife. Reason: the campaign headed by Mrs. Oliver Harriman to endow the Carrie Tingley Crippled Children's Hospital consisted of a lottery...
...population." Their legislative aims include pensions for indigent debutantes and for "well-bred worthies who can prove they have never soiled their hands with labor." Cried an aristocracy-rouser: "What will happen to our American culture if our upper crust is robbed of the substance with which to endow art galleries, the opera and racing stables...
...this time a Committee was formed to raise funds to endow the Studentship." The campaign swings into action with the full approval of President Conant and the Associated Harvard Clubs...
Said Founder Pepperdine, who reluctantly admits that he never reached high school: ''I believe the greatest contribution I can possibly make to the coming generation is to establish and endow an institution of higher learning where Christian living . . . is stressed...
...good to stop a minute, now that the press of the country is fairly alive with gladness at the Littauer School, its Dean, and his program, and think how this unique institution happened. Right after the war Mr. Littauer would have been asked to endow the Business School or the Chemical Department, but 1935 was the turn of the Social Sciences. Since the needs of each part of the University are studies and carefully rated and the drives are timed and coordinated accordingly, facts do not echo the old cry that Harvard is passive and haphazard about its gifts...