Word: grant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brzezinski, an assistant professor of Government, journeyed through all parts of Poland from the beginning of June to mid-July on a Social Science Research grant. After an absence of 19 years from his native country, he was most impressed by strong popular hate and contempt for Russia. He said that although this was prevalent among the people, the government was dependent on the Soviet Union and felt that it had closer ties with it than with the West...
Once again, the seven Masters and Dudley Senior Tutor are faced with the necessity of finding a use for the new grant given them by the University from Ford Foundation funds. The grant has been greeted by some Masters as the most valuable contribution for the Houses since President Lowell, as Reuben Brower has said, while others have wondered fitfully whether they could find enough projects...
...would be unfortunate if the money were to be used up on a number of little projects, which give benefit only to the few people who engage in them. To a great extent, this is what happened to the grant last year; Houses used it for painting and sculpture rooms, theatre workshops, and art prizes, which proved to be of value to an unfortunately small minority of the Houses which instituted them...
Even this plan has a limited advantage. The speaker arrives, talks with a few students or tutors for a while, and leaves. If the terms of the grant could be changed to permit some permanent, and perhaps concrete, contributions to be made to House intellectual atmosphere, the grant might serve a better purpose than at present. If conference rooms were to be built in the basements, for example, more tutorial groups might meet in the House, along with informal discussion groups, in which instructors in or outside the House met with interested students...
This is only a suggestion, put forward to prevent a whittling away of the Ford money for small projects of limited benefit, and to prevent also several wasted visits from important men. The grant should be used to provide for the greatest benefit possible for the greatest amount of time. The money should not scare the Houses, but should encourage them to plan carefully before they put it into...