Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaye has returned recently from a world-wide tour he made on behalf of the United Nations International Children's Educational Fund. The actor's more recent film appearances have been in the "Inspector General," "Hans Christian Andersen," "The Court Jester," and "Knock on Wood...
...would be unfair to maintain categorically that the University completely neglects the research requirements of its teaching personnel. Faculty budgets--through maintaining the libraries and laboratories that make significant individual work possible--indirectly support all research projects. But a special Faculty Research Fund administered by Dean Bundy--even if it produces no more than a few thousand dollars each year--would greatly ease the scramble for available money and would enable Harvard to utilize its resources more thoroughly...
...University should plan to apportionate a part of the $5,000,000 sought in the fund drive to the establishment of a four chair geography department, as recommended by the committee. The Geographic Institute and its excellent map collection provide an admirable base upon which Harvard can rebuild its geography department. The reestablishment of geography at Harvard will be of great value to the University as a whole and will end the somewhat ridiculous position that it now occupies, that of being the only major American or European university not having a geography department...
...when Nathaniel LaMar of Atlanta, Ga. thought he would never make it. The son of a widowed schoolteacher, he had gone to a Negro elementary school that left him unprepared for the stiff competition at Exeter. Had it not been for an organization called the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, he would never have bothered to apply for Exeter at all. But young LaMar gradually found his bearings. Eventually he i) was elected senior class poet at Exeter, 2) graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, 3) won a fellowship to Cambridge University, 4) published short stories...
Last week some 500 scientists, encouraged by this growing fund of information, gathered in San Diego at a symposium held by the Air Force and Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. to talk in down-to-earth terms about the practical problems of converting space theory into space hardware. Much of the conference was classified, but two projects, openly described, show how science is simulating space conditions on earth...