Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest drain upon book resources has been the growing popularity of phonograph records. Ever since a music-minded Dunster chairman spent the House's entire sum stocking his favorite albums, this portion has been limited to one third of the grant, or $200. Nevertheless, with library committees, always spending the maximum for records, book needs are slighted. Since the original figure of $600 did not take into account these unexpected purchases, the College should now increase its House library grants...
Donations of the remaining amount went to women's colleges, state and land-grant universities, private secondary schools, ten Canadian universities, urban universities, and junior colleges...
Ever since the passage of the Merrill Land Grant Acts in the 1860's, Cornell has had compulsory two-year military training for all physically fit male undergraduates. The provisions of the Acts force Cornell to offer ROTC courses, but do not compel the school to make the courses mandatory...
...Goody ear-Philco Playhouse scored a near miss with a literate, well-cast play called Shadow of the Champ. On a transatlantic voyage, Broadway's Lee Grant, the disenchanted sister of a sportswriter, is thrown together with Eli Wallach, the boyhood chum and adult hanger-on of the heavyweight champion of the world (Jack Warden), and slowly draws him away from his lifelong shadow-like attachment to the champ. Scene after scene was nicely drawn, particularly those sketching the almost Oriental retinue that trails after a champion boxer, but the play as a whole failed to carry conviction...
Died. Prince Michael Cantacuzene, 79, prerevolutionary Russian general and former husband of Julia Dent Grant, granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant; in Sarasota, Fla. Prince Cantacuzene met Julia Grant, daughter of onetime (1888-93) Ambassador to Austria-Hungary Major General Frederick D. Grant, at Cannes, married her in 1899, and was divorced by her in 1934, spent his last years as a Florida bank executive and manager of agricultural holdings...