Word: granting
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...Since years I am behind Pygmies," says Austrian-born Father Martin Gusinde, 69, who teaches anthropology at Washington's Catholic University of America. Starting in 1934, he studied little brown people in Central and South Africa, the Philippines and the Andes. This year, with the help of a grant from Philadelphia's American Philosophical Society, he went to the interior of Australian New Guinea, where a little-known race of Pygmies lives in the rugged Schrader Mountains. "Such a terrible country!" says Father Gusinde. "In Austria the Alps are a kind of avenue compared to those mountains...
...money will be supplied by the income from a part of last year's Ford Foundation grant. One portion of the $4,500,000 grant was specified for the purpose of increasing faculty salaries. Of the remaining $1,500,000, part has already been used to endow two professors' chairs. At least $230,000 of the rest will go to the Masters...
...Refusing to grant an injunction to citizens of Clinton, Tenn. who want to bar integration in their schools, the Tennessee State Supreme Court declared that all state laws to enforce segregation in the public schools are unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable...
Biggie rode to fame as one of the architects of the revolution that was to remake Michigan State. Under the leadership of President John A. Hannah, the little land-grant college of 7,000 students was growing into a big university (this year's enrollment: 19,000). But Hannah was having trouble lining up a large enough faculty; most of the men he wanted had never heard of Michigan State. A good football team, the president reasoned, would at least bring recognition. "If it meant the betterment of Michigan State," said Hannah then, "our football team would play...
Tufts' course system may soon undergo a partial face-lifting as a result of a recent Carnegie Foundation study grant of $35,000. At present the school offers a wide variety of liberal arts courses along with its special undergraduate College of Engineering...