Word: endowment
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Other looming issues Fellows cite also revolve around money. These include the skyrocketing costs of health care and how it will affect the Medical School and Harvard's affiliated hospitals. A related problem is the increasingly high cost of equipping professors, especially scientists. It costs $1 million to endow a professorship at Harvard, but a scientist's lab equipment may cost more than that...
Much of the class's enthusiasm can be seen in the number of those returning and their gift-giving. The Class of 1934--which entered college during the depression years--boasts the highest proportion of benefactors. Pescosolido intends to endow a chair for the study of Rome's contribution to Western civilization. "You take extra pride if you've been successful in life and can do some good for Harvard," the Ipswich resident explained...
...emphasize how overwhelming such impressions are, Haviaras does not endow his characters with very intense feelings. Panagis's chief interest as a narrator lies in recording the impact of, what he sees on the people around him. Finding himself incapable of fervor, he does not display much enthusiasm for the leftist cause he joins Panagis, discouraged from leaving Greece by the knowledge that things are no better outside, turns, back from the border to join the leftist Andartes. After surviving some incredible fighting. Panagis is put into a concentration camp, release from which enables him to return to love...
Associate Dean Roger H. Martin says that as part of the drive the school hopes to endow a chair in women's studies at a price tag of $1.5 million. Martin also says he hopes donors will fund chairs in each of the major religions at the school's affiliated Center for Study of World Religions...
...foundation plans to convert the house into a center for Philippine Studies, and, in addition, hopes to raise money to endow a Chair in Philippine Studies at either Harvard or MIT, said Steve Angular, the foundation's president...