Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent gift of Procter and Gamble to Harvard is of special significance to the United States, to Harvard, and to that mammoth endeavor of our time, the Program for Harvard College. It represents the growing awareness of private industrial concerns that their own welfare--and the country's--can be best served by donating money to private universities to carry on their educational projects...
...this gift is of especial importance for Harvard. The educational program which it will finance was approved this past May after several years of careful study by committees of the Faculty. The groups were looking for a new curriculum that would provoke increased undergraduate interest. Though this change is, of course, not felt directly in the Summer School, it is representative of a growing desire in many American universities to alter their curricula in a similar manner...
Although corporation and large gift giving has been slow, alumni have responded wholeheartedly to the drive, which has centered its appeal on the importance of the success of the Program to all colleges in the United States. This argument ranks high on the list of "selling points" which alumni workers are given before they go out to solicit funds. The truth of it is readily apparent: as soon as Harvard, the wealthiest (in terms of endowment) college in the country, announced its drive, Yale, M.I.T., Brown, and a number of other schools followed suit with ambitious money-raising programs...
...unrestricted gift of $100,000 to the Program for Harvard College--distributed equally over a five-year period--has made possible the establishment of a special Honors Program Fund, President Pusey announced this week...
...state governments, similarly limited by past court interpretations of the 14th Amendment, ought to be free to offer them whenever they choose. For instance, there is no good reason, says Howe, why states should not settle such questions as whether public schools may permit receptive students to accept the gift of Bibles. And "all the current demands which fly the colors of religious liberty" are not necessarily and automatically "entitled to preferential respect...