Word: granting
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...building, which probably stood on the present site of Matthews, opened two years later. The project, however, soon ran into difficulties. According to the London Society's grant, Indians would attend the College so that "preserving their own language, they may obtain the knowledge of other tongues and dispense the Indian tongue in the College." The trouble was that few aborigines cared to obtain knowledge or to dispense it. Those that did try to enter Harvard, about twenty in all, came hopelessly unready for higher education and had to be prepared for entrance in local prop school's at Harvard...
...Ebenezer Zane, a hardy Marylander, contracted to clear a bridle path across lower Ohio in return for a land grant of 3 sq. mi.-a transaction authorized by Congress and executed by President George Washington (who owned vast tracts in eastern Ohio himself). Part of Zane's Trace became in time the National Road (now U.S. Highway 40), which linked the East with the wide-open Midwest and helped populate Ohio with a swarm of new settlers (250,000 in ten years alone). Last week, some 100 miles to the north, Ohio completed a new kind of link between...
...size and conditions of the state scholarships, he said, should vary to suit particular needs, though it would be generally advantageous to grant scholarships directly to students in order to permit study at any approved institution of their choice...
Additional grants from Time-Life, Inc., and the Seas Foundation have boosted the number of scholarships from 200 to 350. Eight million dollars of the original Ford Foundation grant was set aside to match such contributions from individuals and corporations...
There was one grant of $10,000 given to the Medical School from Alumni funds...