Word: granting
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Yale announced yesterday that it will use the income from December's $4,000,-900, Ford Foundation grant to increase salaries of the Faculty and enlarge retirement and insurance benefits for all faculties...
...been drawn up after consultation with some of the nation's leading educators. Even detractors of the administration's program admitted that the school building proposal was good in principle; federal funds for school construction were urgently needed. Their only reservation was that the bill simply did not grant enough money. Today, however, the measure lies moribund in the House Rules Committee, slowly being strangled by the Powell Amendment...
While the congressional battle over the Powell Amendment winds on, the need for a federally-supported school construction program grows more urgent. The bill to grant such aid is dangerously near extinction. The immediate need for government aid to education should overbalance the desire for Congressional enforcement of the desegregation decision. Congressman Powell should withdraw his rider and allow the school bill to rise from its death...
HISTORIAN Samuel Flagg Bemis' John Quincy Adams and The Union (see BOOKS) is the first major biographical work resulting from unrestricted access to the Adams Papers, currently being edited under a ten-year grant of $250,000 from TIME Inc. (TIME. Oct. 25, 1954). The vast and priceless collection of writings by Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and Diplomat Charles Francis Adams is being microfilmed for circulation to libraries, private and public, and eventually will appear in 34 volumes of diary, 12 to 15 volumes of family correspondence and an even greater number, still unestimated. of general...
...Mother of Us All is likened by its creators to a pageant of the passing 19th century. Across the stage in its course pass Daniel Webster, Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens, Anthony Comstock, Lillian Russell and Ulysses S. Grant. "The costumes," the authors specify, "should sharply exemplify regions, decades, and social circumstances. The variety of these against a more generalized historical background should offer a spectacle no more anachronistic than that suggested to the mind by the perusal of a volume of old photographs...