Word: funds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, over the years, the Law School has remained clastic. But a mind-boggling array of serious problems must be confronted in the years immediately ahead. These problems transcend the tasks of Faculty recruitment and fund-raising. They are matters of educational policy, and law students at Harvard are vitally concerned about them. To a great extent, the next Dean will be responsible for their disposition...
Academe's massive fund drives no longer aim exclusively at new buildings and expanded facilities. Since the bigger need now is to meet annual operating costs, mainly in teachers' salaries, there is a new emphasis at many universities on setting up endowed chairs. At the same time, sophisticated benefactors have found that giving their names to a professorship is more satisfying than simply seeing them carved on the donor's plaque of a new building...
Columbia University's current $200 million fund drive is centered around the creation of 100 new academic chairs, each to be backed by $750,000 in endowed funds. A primary goal of a new $52 million academic-improvement program at Notre Dame is to set up 40 endowed chairs at $500,000 each. Harvard, which has more than 300 endowed chairs, has been able to create 90 of them since 1959. The public universities are eying the same kind of financial help. The University of Minnesota is trying to find donors for 20 chairs, while Wisconsin already...
...land chair money, fund raisers often cater to the specific interests of the potential donors. Conservationist Laurence Rockefeller, for example, endowed a professorship of outdoor recreation at the University of Michigan...
...were drifting from friend to friend. In a cramped Boston apartment, one thin Digger picked sporadically on a guitar. "Look," he said, "all we were trying to do was groove together." Another was trying to get the telephone number of the Manhattan Diggers. He would set up a Digger Fund. He would collect $20,000. But, at the moment, he said, he couldn't lay hands on a hundred...