Word: endows
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Preventive maintenance is about as unglamorous an expense as exists in the University budget. Understandably, the alumni and foundations would much rather endow professorships and build libraries; that's why you don't see a John C. Graduate '54 memorial rewiring, or a Wanda R. Alumna '40 honorary replastering. But few expenditures affect the lives of undergraduates more than those that determine the quality of the places in which we live. Harvard's House system may be its greatest treasure, and students fool themselves if they think many collegians elsewhere live in more congenial surroundings. But many of these lovely...
...Foundation to flourish, Gomes adds, it will need to gain lasting credibility with the Faculty. "The Foundation is meant to bring the community together, not to endow estrangement. We might not get quick results, so the project will require patience from all involved parties...
...House Association (PBH), another organization that disapproved of the restricted dedication, took its protest one step further, obtaining a copy of the original pledge form, which stipulated the terms of the contributions. The form read: "To enable Harvard College, in reliance upon this and other subscriptions, to build and endow a University Church as a memorial to the Harvard men who lost their lives in the World War, I agree to give to the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
DIED. Charles Robertson, 77, retired partner of the New York investment banking firm of Smith, Barney & Co. who, with his wife Marie, donated $35 million in 1961 to endow the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, the largest single gift in the university's history; of pneumonia; in Delray Beach...
...canvases is blunted by time or convention, as are some of the passages in Dickens that made our great-grandparents weep. A painting like Antigna's The Fire, 1850, looks stilted to us now, with its Raphaelesque pyramidal composition, its marmoreal smoothness, its "classicizing" of disaster. Yet to endow the sight of a wretched working family about to be burned for a landlord's greed with the scale and treatment of official history painting (it is about nine feet square) was in itself a political statement and, to its audience 130 years ago, a very moving...