Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through a celebrity in the dining hall, a new drama workshop, or a bottle of sherry at a concentration dinner, the Ford grants to the Houses touch the undergraduate in many ways. From a Ford Foundation award, the Corporation annually gives $25000 to each Master, allowing him, as Master Fair puts it, "leeway to apply his imagination...
Ford money has also paid for capital improvements: art and drama studios for Dunster, seminar rooms in Winthrop and Kirkland, and such things as photographic enlargers and tape recorders. But, as Fair explained, "generally we don't want to sink our money into hardware...
KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 27--British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan declared tonight his Kremlin talks were "a valuable preparation for wider international negotiations which must follow." But he said the Soviet Union must show it is ready to reach fair agreement if it really wants peace...
This aspect of Geophysical Year work went unpublished outside scientific circles. The masses of the world and the politicians remember the competitive side--the Sputnik arrogantly displayed in the Russian colossus at the Brussels World's Fair, and the voice of President Eisenhower beamed from the edge of space. Even the highly literate peoples of the United States and Western Europe were swept up in the satellite race, to the neglect of other aspects of IGY. Rockets which carried instruments last year were visualized as carrying thermonuclear payloads next year...
Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, called the visit an experiment which, if successful, might establish a precedent for a continuing faculty exchange between the two Houses. He stressed the importance of "informal contact between students and the visiting professor...