Word: equiped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...school of oceanography at Wood's Hole has been founded with the gift of $2,500,000 granted by the Rockefeller Foundation at the recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences. One million is to be used to build and equip the school, $1,000,000 for a permanent endowment fund, and $500,000 as a special operating fund for the first decade, to be paid in annual installments...
...Mars, Iowa, the probated will of T. M. Zink, deceased attorney, revealed:1) His $100,000 estate is to be placed in trust for 75 years; 2) In A. D. 2005 the accumulated principal is to be used to establish, equip and maintain a library on whose shelves will be no woman author, on whose catalogs will be no woman's name, over whose portal will blaze: "No Women Admitted"; 3) To his daughter went $5; 4) To his widow...
...object of a college education? "It is," says President Hibben of Princeton, "to fit each student most adequately to perform his proper functions as an essential part of the social structure in which he is to live and move and have his being." It is, is it not, to equip young men to play their full part in the life of their several communities, to give them a keener appreciation of the duties of citizenship, to enable them to contribute something of value to the well-being of their fellowmen. It teaches the obligations of service. It involves a point...
...useful service in the world, then, is Harvard's goal; to equip them with the faculties necessary to stand on their own feet, to fight the battle of life, to meet unexpected situations, to overcome obstacles that are regarded as insurmountable. Someone defined education as "what remains behind when you have forgotten all that you have learned." What is it that remains behind? It is your ability to think, to diagnose, your creating power, your will, your ability to concentrate, your mental equipment gained from training, study, and experience...
...appeared, last week, to take this declaration as an affront to them. The Earl of Birkenhead, knowing very well that St. Gandhi and many of the most representative leaders of Indian thought are in jail, stormed: "I suppose that the Government intends to empty jails of law-breakers to equip the round table with witnesses...