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Word: endowment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finance the remaining construction expenses, the Design School has initiated a fund drive of more than $10 million. William A. Doebele Jr., Associate Dean for Development, said yesterday that it would probably be about 2 years before the drive is completed. The money would also be used to endow new professorships, increase the number of fellowships, and improve the School's Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School of Design Requests $2 Million in U.S. Funds | 10/11/1965 | See Source »

...Attica and classical background give such modern works as Matisse's Head of Jeannette an air of repose and permanence. Andre Derain's Girl with Long Hair has gained a depth of dimension it never had in France's Chardin Gallery, and the razor-sharp shadows endow Henry Moore's prowlike Standing Figure with a new monumentality. As for Renoir's Venus Triumphant, with her well-rounded grace she looked ready for installation above it all in the Parthenon itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Figures in the Sun | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...larger library now considered necessary and would still leave room for substantial parking space. But the land has been valued at $6 million, and its purchase would greatly increase the $20 million price tax Library officials had estimated would be required to build the Library complex and endow the Institute of politics that will be connected with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Site Confirmation Is Expected | 8/11/1965 | See Source »

...Ford grant, the largest single sum ever received by Harvard, will be used to endow nine professorships, to construct a building for international affairs and to sponsor international research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McDonald to Administer $12.5 Million Ford Gift | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...rejection letters, Jeff," he said. Jeff, who had wadded them all into a ball, tried to uncrinkle them. "Its the population explosion," said Brookstone. "You can attribute it all to that. Competition is just too tough." Then he added, with a grin: "All the same, I'll never endow a building at Harvard or Yale after this." But Jeff wistfully recalls visiting Cambridge and New Haven last summer: "Have you ever been to Harvard? The whole atmosphere is just tremendous. You can almost sense the learning and the traditions of the place. And Yale. I could get lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Those Thin Letters | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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