Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has set aside $88 million dollars to support its faculty, and Columbia has allocated $136 million to endow professorships...
...greater source of concern to Quad residents should be the possibility that a genuine billionaire will reach into his pocket and endow North or South House. That's when chaos will truly reign, because this segment of the population is completely insane. Howard Hughes is no longer with us, for which students at the Quad should count their blessings: he might have rolled one day and decided to rename one dorm or another Little Balls of String House...
...dramatic and significant that a life insurance company would see the need to endow an academic institution. In A. Jackson `70 associated dean of the K-School said yesterday, adding. "This really means that we are cooking up an enormous head of steam...
Said Roche wryly as he received the prestigious Pritzker prize: "There are many fine architects around who are more deserving of this than I. Who they are, I cannot think of at this moment." He will use the money to endow an Eero Saarinen Chair of Architecture at Yale University. -By Wolf Von Eckardt
...responsibility of leaders is not simply to affirm an objective. It is above all to endow it with a meaning compatible with the values of their society. If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, if the yearning for peace is not allied with a sense of justice, it can become an abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. To build peace on reciprocal restraint; to suffuse our concept of order with our country's commitment to freedom; to strive for peace without abdication and for order without unnecessary confrontation-therein resides...