Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winthrop House will have as Ford visitors during the coming week two New York artists. Frank Mason, a member of the faculty of the Art Students League, and Mrs. Mason are spending three days as artists in residence at the House. It is expected that, in addition to being available for conferences with interested undergraduates, they will put in some time in sketching various House activities...
Whether 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...
...each invite two students preferably not their own tutees. Instead of a dinner-table tutorial, there is, hopefully, a mixing of interests. "These meetings often last until 9 or 10," Perkins noted. Winthrop is another of the Houses which sponsors regular tutor-student dinners, and Master Owen observed that "Ford would be surprised to know how much of his money goes for sherry...
...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...
...general, the Ford money provides the frosting on the sponge cake, and the Masters can spread it as they will. Experimentation will continue, but so far, the tutor-student dinners and House "visitations" are the core of the program...