Word: granting
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Among the organizations they have approached is the Russell Sage foundation of New York, which recently made a grant to J. Lawrence Dohan '55, founder of the P.B.H. Mental Hospital program, for projected mental health study. The Committee is also soliciting the 51 million dollar Commonwealth Fund and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation...
Conditional Reflex. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Antoinette B. Grant, 29, got a divorce after testifying that her husband, Psychiatrist Henry J. Grant, 43, continually compared her to his worst patients...
...nation's biggest consumers of hydroelectric power. But the huge Northwest power pool, 58% generated by the Government, brought so much new industry and population that today the Northwest may have a serious power shortage by 1960. Although new dams are badly needed, Congress is now reluctant to grant the whopping sums they would cost...
...Binge. Highlight of its latest issue is Civil War Correspondent (Chicago Times) Sylvanus Cadwallader's hitherto unpublished account of a two-day binge of General Grant. During the siege of Vicksburg, Cadwallader encountered Grant staggering through the barroom of a Mississippi steamboat. Wrote Cadwallader: "I . . . enticed him into his stateroom, locked myself in the room with him . . . and commenced throwing bottles of whisky . . . into the river. Grant soon ordered me out of the room, but I refused to go . . . I said to him that I was the best friend he had in the Army of the Tennessee . . ." Grant continued...
...President and Fellows voted to tear down the building and to use its bricks for new construction. The bricks from the Indian College eventually were used to build the old Stoughton Hall. In their resolution, however, the President and Fellows remembered the original terms of the London Society's grant. They provided that "in case any Indians should hereafter be sent to the College they should enjoy their studies rent-free in said building." Although this offer has never been repudiated, there is no record that anyone ever took the College...